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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-1179 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the S/MIME Parsing capability in Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…

published 2002-10-28 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1163

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.1%
EPSS 22.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the S/MIME Parsing capability in Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a digitally signed email with a long "From" address, which triggers the overflow when the user views or previews the message.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21932)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

22.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21932 Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5/6.0 - S/MIME Buffer Overflow remote, 2002-10-10

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.