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CVE-2006-1305
Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 32.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and interrupted mail recovery) via malformed e-mail header information, possibly related to (1) long subject lines or (2) large numbers of recipients in To or CC headers.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 10 months later
· 10 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 32.4% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
13
- ADV-2007-0104 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA07-009A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 23674 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- HPSBST02184 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- [funsec] 20060308 DOSing Outlook 2003 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 31253 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1017488 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS07-003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- VU#617436 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 21937 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://osvdb.org/ref/24/24081-outlook1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:122 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/347 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-1309 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-1305)Record last updated .