Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook
CVE-2006-2055
Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1 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.
EPSS: 0.154 (96.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Outlook — versions 2003
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry, Broken Link)