Vulnerability in Avantbrowser Avant Browser
CVE-2006-2058
Argument injection vulnerability in Avant Browser 10.1 Build 17 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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.018 (78.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.018 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Avantbrowser Avant Browser — versions 10.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html (Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/785 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)