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CVE-2004-0501

CVSS Score Not Available
50.73%
MEDIUM RiskEPSS (98th percentile)

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.

Published: 8/18/2004
Modified: 4/3/2025
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Vulnerability Summary

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

50.73%MEDIUM Exploitation Risk
98th percentile

This vulnerability has a 50.73% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.