CVE-2006-2056

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 26, 2006
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Apr 26, 2006

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via " (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

ADV-2006-1538vdb-entry
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
20060424 Multiple browsers Windows mailto protocol Office 2003 file attachment exploitmailing-list
office-mailto-obtain-information(26118)vdb-entry

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