CVE-2004-0121 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0121?

CVE-2004-0121 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2002 does not sufficiently filter parameters of mailto: URLs when using them as arguments when calling OUTLOOK.EXE, which allows remote attackers to use script code in the Local Machine zone and execute arbitrary programs.

Weakness: CWE-88

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0121?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0121?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0121 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2004-0121 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2004-0121 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-88qv-6q9j-fhvv.