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CVE-2007-3897
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and earlier, and Windows Mail for Vista, allows remote Network News Transfer…
High9.3EPSS 54.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and earlier, and Windows Mail for Vista, allows remote Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers to execute arbitrary code via long NNTP responses that trigger memory corruption.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 54.6% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- 1018785 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- HPSBST02280 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1706 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS07-056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20071010 Re: iDefense Security Advisory 10.09.07: Microsoft Windows Mail and Outlook Express NNTP Protocol Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20071009 Microsoft Windows Mail and Outlook Express NNTP Protocol Heap Overflow (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3436 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1018786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 25908 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TA07-282A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 27112 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
- 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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