Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-1312 - Remote Denial of Service vulnerability in GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity HTML Email

047910
CVSS 10.0 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
gfi
critical

Summary

A bug in the HTML parser in a certain Microsoft HTML library, as used in various third party products, may allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain strings, as reported in GFI MailEssentials for Exchange 9 and 10, and GFI MailSecurity for Exchange 8, which causes emails to remain in IIS or Exchange mail queues.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gfi
4