CVE-2004-0526: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unknown versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook allow remote attackers to spoof a legitimate URL in the status bar via A HREF tags with modified "alt" values that point to the legitimate site, combined with an image map whose href points to the malicious site, which facilitates a "phishing" attack.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Outlook: version 97 only; version 98 only; version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only
• Microsoft Outlook Express: version 4.0 only; version 4.01 only; version 4.27.3110 only; version 4.72.2106 only; version 4.72.3120.0 only; version 4.72.3612 only; …

Published 2004-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.