FKIE_CVE-2006-2057

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-04-26 20:06 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox 1.0.6
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