CVE-2004-2482: Microsoft Outlook

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 and 2003, when configured to use Microsoft Word 2000 or 2003 as the e-mail editor and when forwarding e-mail, does not properly handle an opening OBJECT tag that does not have a closing OBJECT tag, which causes Outlook to automatically download the URI in the data property of the OBJECT tag and might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Outlook: version 2000 only; version 2003 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.