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

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)