Quote:A vulnerability recently addressed in Outlook for Android allows an attacker to steal information from the affected device.
 
The vulnerability, Microsoft reveals, resides in the manner in which Outlook for Android parses specifically crafted email messages. To exploit the flaw, an authenticated attacker needs to send a specially crafted email message to the victim.
 
“The attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could then perform cross-site scripting attacks on the affected systems and run scripts in the security context of the current user,” the software giant explains in an advisory.
Tracked as CVE-2019-1105, the vulnerability was addressed last week “by correcting how Outlook for Android parses specially crafted email messages.”
 
F5 Networks security researcher Bryan Appleby, who reported the flaw to Microsoft, explains that the issue begins with the ability to embed an iframe into the email message.
JavaScript within the code would have no restrictions in Outlook on Android, being able to access cookies, tokens, and even some emails, which could also be sent back to a remote attacker.