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Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Aug 14, 2019

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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published Aug 14, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Nov 26, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a