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Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 22, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 26, 2006
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Feb 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

30.859%
(97th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2006-2055

GHSA ID

GHSA-grxh-vgg4-3pff

Source code

No known source code

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