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CVE-2000-0036

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0036 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh where HTML email attachments are automatically downloaded without user prompting. This medium-severity issue (CVSS 5.0) has a low attack complexity and could lead to information disclosure (integrity impact), as an attacker could potentially execute malicious code or access sensitive data through these unprompted downloads. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.5:*:macintosh:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.0:*:macos:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0392 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/1999/ms99-060
support.microsoft.com / default.aspx