Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-2056
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.
EPSS: 0.129 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- 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)