Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2006-2057

Argument injection vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 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: 0.017 (74.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox — versions 1.0.6
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

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)