CVE-2004-0284

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Published Mar 18, 2004 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 16.8% KEV · Not listed

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), if "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" is disabled, via a web site or HTML e-mail that contains two null characters (%00) after the host name.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:sp1::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:sp2::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2003:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 16.8% (16.768% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107643134712133&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9629
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15127

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Ie Internet Explorer Outlook

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 8, 2024, 12:10 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Mar 18, 2004, 5:00 AM
Updated: Aug 8, 2024, 12:10 AM
Reserved: Mar 17, 2004, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:05 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Nov 23, 2004, 5:00 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:05 PM

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