CVE-2002-0285

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
7.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: May 31, 2002 (8749 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 on Windows treats a carriage return ("CR") in a message header as if it were a valid carriage return/line feed combination (CR/LF), which could allow remote attackers to bypass virus protection and or other filtering mechanisms via a mail message with headers that only contain the CR, which causes Outlook to create separate headers.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft outlook express

References

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