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CVE-2004-0501

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2004-08-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Outlook 2003 allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and cause Outlook to request a URL from a remote site via an HTML e-mail message containing a Vector Markup Language (VML) entity whose src parameter points to the remote site, which could allow remote attackers to know when a message has been read, verify valid e-mail addresses, and possibly leak other information.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Outlook

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References