Microsoft Outlook 2003 Access Restriction src privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Outlook 2003 (Groupware Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Access Restriction. The manipulation of the argument src with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The bug was discovered 05/11/2004. The weakness was released 08/18/2004 by http-equiv (Website). The advisory is available at marc.info. This vulnerability was named CVE-2004-0501 since 05/27/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/05/2019). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 99 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (16116).

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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05/12/2004 +1 days 🔍
05/27/2004 +15 days 🔍
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05/23/2005 +278 days 🔍
04/14/2015 +3613 days 🔍
06/05/2019 +1512 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: marc.info
Researcher: http-equiv
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-0501 (🔍)
X-Force: 16116
Vulnerability Center: 8065 - Information Disclosure in Outlook 2003 via VML Usage, Medium
SecurityFocus: 10323 - Microsoft Outlook Mail Client E-mail Address Verification Weakness
Secunia: 11595 - Microsoft Outlook External Reference Vulnerability, Less Critical
OSVDB: 6079 - Microsoft - Outlook - Mail Client E-mail Address Verification Weakness

Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:17
Updated: 06/05/2019 00:04
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:17 (65), 06/05/2019 00:04 (3)
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Cache ID: 3:665:103

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