CVE-2019-1204

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
8.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 8% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: August 14, 2019 (2465 days ago)
Last Modified: February 20, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft

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.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft officemicrosoft office 365 proplusmicrosoft outlook

References