National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2001-0538
Original release date:08/14/2001
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Outlook View ActiveX Control in Microsoft Outlook 2002 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious HTML e-mail message or web page.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#131569
Name: VU#131569
External Source: MS
Name: MS01-038
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20010712 MS Office XP - the more money I give to Microsoft, the more vulnerable my Windows computers are
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: outlook-activex-view-control(6831)
External Source: BID
Name: 3025
External Source: NTBUGTRAQ
Name: 20010712 Vulnerability in IE/Outlook ActiveX control
External Source: CIAC
Name: L-113
