{"id":"CVE-2002-0285","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2002-0285","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:51:09.571Z","title":"Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 on Windows treats a carriage return (\"CR\") in a message header as if it were a valid carriage return/line feed combination (CR/LF), which could allow remote attackers to bypass virus protection and or other filtering…","description":"Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 on Windows treats a carriage return (\"CR\") in a message header as if it were a valid carriage return/line feed combination (CR/LF), which could allow remote attackers to bypass virus protection and or other filtering mechanisms via a mail message with headers that only contain the CR, which causes Outlook to create separate headers.","published":"2002-05-31T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:57:09.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["microsoft/outlook express"],"epss":{"score":0.12316,"percentile":0.96162,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101362077701164&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8198.php","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4092","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101362077701164&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8198.php","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4092","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0285","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}