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CVE-2006-2056

medium · 5

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.

5
CVSS
12.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2006-04-26
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-88

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorer6.0
microsoftwindows_xpall versions

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References

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