# CVE-2003-0904: Information disclosure in n/a

> Authenticated users can view other users' mailboxes due to improper HTTP connection reuse in Exchange OWA when NTLM is used and Kerberos is disabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.0 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 8 Jan 2004
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wpp8-hx5r-4jfx

## What is CVE-2003-0904?

CVE-2003-0904 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, published on 8 Jan 2004. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Outlook Web Access (OWA), when configured to use NTLM authentication, does not properly reuse HTTP connections, which can cause OWA users to view mailboxes of other users when Kerberos has been disabled as an authentication method for IIS 6.0, e.g. when SharePoint Services 2.0 is installed.

Weakness: CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0904?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Sharepoint Services, Microsoft Windows Server 2003.

## How do I fix CVE-2003-0904?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0904 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2003-0904 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0904 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server

- [CVE-2024-21410](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21410/): Microsoft Exchange Server Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-34473](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34473/): Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution (critical 9.1, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-26855](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-26855/): Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution (critical 9.1, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-34523](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34523/): Microsoft Exchange Server Privilege Escalation (critical 9.0, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2023-21529](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-21529/): Microsoft Exchange Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2003-0904 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2003-0904 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server, published on 8 Jan 2004. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0904 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Microsoft Exchange Server. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0904/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2003-0904/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0904
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0904
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2003-0904

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