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CVE-2000-0524

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2000-0524 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Remote attackers can trigger this by sending email messages with blank fields such as BCC, Reply-To, Return-Path, or From. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, which is typical for a vulnerability of this age and impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:exchange_server:4.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:exchange_server:5.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
97CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:97:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
14.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1463 is in the 96th 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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0045.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/1333
Third Party AdvisoryVDB EntryVendor Advisory