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.

CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

References

Link	Resource
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html	Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded	Broken Link Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538	Broken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

AND

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2006-04-26 20:06

Updated : 2024-02-13 17:51

NVD link : CVE-2006-2056

Mitre link : CVE-2006-2056

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2006-2056

JSON object : View

Products Affected

microsoft

windows_xp
internet_explorer

CWE

CWE-88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

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