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.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS

1.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 75th percentile

Published

2006-04-26

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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