CVE-2019-1204
MEDIUMMicrosoft Office and Outlook - Elevation of Privilege via Malformed Email Message Processing
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1204
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0442
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-20
Status
published
Products (5)
microsoft/office
2019
microsoft/office_365_proplus
microsoft/outlook
2010 sp2
microsoft/outlook
2013 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/outlook
2016
Published
Aug 14, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026