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01 Record

CVE-2007-3897

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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: microsoft
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
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02 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

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
54.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 98.9% 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
2007-10-09 22:00Z19 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-07 14:37Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2007-07-19
Assigning CNA
microsoft
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
e108d2bd117da3cba98485e471696b3eefd0904648b1b87debe486daa4c23c6a

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
microsoftoutlook_expressNot specified—
microsoftwindows_mailNot specified—

06 References