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Cumulative Security Update for Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail (941202)

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4235

Synopsis

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the email client.

Description

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the email client. The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Outlook Express that contains several security flaws that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host. To exploit this flaw, an attacker would need to send a malformed email to a victim on the remote host and have him open it.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Outlook Express and Windows Mail.

See Also

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-056.mspx

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4235

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 10/10/2007

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 26962

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:outlook_express

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3897

BID: 25908