01 Record
CVE-2005-4840
The Outlook Express Address Book control, when using Internet Explorer 6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and browser crash) by creating the
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
The Outlook Express Address Book control, when using Internet Explorer 6, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and browser crash) by creating the
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 11.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-06-07 21:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 00:01Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-06-07
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 80d9fd733af70074449fe8b5b4750503c225c0936c9d0de5a42781a4e042bed3
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com20070606 IE 6 / MS Office Outlook Express Address Book Activex DoShttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470694/100/0/threaded
- www.osvdb.org26836http://www.osvdb.org/26836
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comoutlook-addressbook-activex-dos(34755)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34755
- www.securityfocus.com20050301 IObjectSafety and Internet Explorerhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/391803
- browserfun.blogspot.comhttp://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-3-outlookexpressaddressbook_02.html