CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-1204
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Outlook initiates processing of incoming messages without sufficient validation of the formatting of the messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could attempt to force Outlook to load a local or remote message store (over SMB).
To exploit the vulnerability, the attacker could send a specially crafted email to a victim. Outlook would then attempt to open a pre-configured message store contained in the email upon receipt of the email.
This update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring Office fully validates incoming email formatting before processing message content.
Affected configurations
• microsoft office 2019
• microsoft office 365 proplus
• microsoft outlook 2010
• microsoft outlook 2013
• microsoft outlook 2016
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1204 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1204 Patch, Vendor Advisory