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Microsoft Exchange OWA Automatic Script Execution

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Microsoft Exchange OWA Automatic Script Execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/21/2001
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2004
Modified
12/04/2013

Description

The Outlook Web Access (OWA) service for Microsoft Exchange allows malicious users to send scripts embedded in HTML that are automatically executed by Internet Explorer clients. This is done without prompting the user if they want the script to execute.

Solution(s)

  • install-exchange-2000-patch-q299535
  • install-exchange-5_5-patch-q301361

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