THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2019-1218
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2019-1218

Outlook vulnerability

CVSS
5.4
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Outlook iOS software parses specifically crafted email messages. An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted email message to a victim. The attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could then perform cross-site scripting attacks on the affected systems and run scripts in the security context of the current user. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Outlook iOS parses specially crafted email messages.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Outlook
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2019-08-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2019-1218

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Outlook is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2019-1218.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2019-1218

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2019-1218 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2019-1218?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2019-1218.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

MEDIUM
CVE-2019-2989
Graalvm vulnerability
MEDIUM
CVE-2019-17671
Wordpress vulnerability
MEDIUM
CVE-2019-17120
2fa Enterprise Server vulnerability