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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2001-0538 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Outlook View ActiveX Control in Microsoft Outlook 2002 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ma…

published 2001-08-14 25 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2001-0530

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
52.9%
EPSS 52.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Outlook View ActiveX Control in Microsoft Outlook 2002 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malicious HTML e-mail message or web page.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21004)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

52.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21004 Microsoft Outlook 98/2000/2002 - Arbitrary Code Execution remote, 2001-07-12
  • EDB-21003 Microsoft Outlook 98/2000/2002 - Unauthorized Email Access remote, 2001-07-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.