CVE-2002-1056: Microsoft Outlook

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 18.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 and 2002, when configured to use Microsoft Word as the email editor, does not block scripts that are used while editing email messages in HTML or Rich Text Format (RTF), which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary scripts via an email that the user forwards or replies to.

Affected products

• Microsoft Outlook: version 2000 only; version 2002 only
• Microsoft Word: version 2000 only; version 2002 only

Published 2002-05-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.