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CVE-2019-1204 json

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-9772

cvss
4.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

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Exploit prediction

4.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019
  • Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus
  • Microsoft Microsoft Outlook 2016
  • Microsoft Microsoft Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Microsoft Outlook 2010 Service Pack 2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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