CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0216

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-02-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-02-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Microsoft email clients in Outlook, Exchange, and Windows Messaging automatically respond to Read Receipt and Delivery Receipt tags, which could allow an attacker to flood a mail system with responses by forging a Read Receipt request that is redirected to a large distribution list.

Affected configurations

• microsoft exchange server • microsoft outlook • microsoft windows messaging

References