CVE-2000-0036 — Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh downloads attachments to HTML mail without promp

Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh downloads attachments to HTML mail without prompting the user, aka the "HTML Mail Attachment" vulnerability.

01What is this vulnerability?

Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh downloads attachments to HTML mail without prompting the user, aka the "HTML Mail Attachment" vulnerability.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2000-03-22T05:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-08T05:05:53.761Z

09References

• support.microsoft.com — http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ249082
• docs.microsoft.com — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-06…