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CVE-2006-2057

Published: Apr 26, 2006

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

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http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html

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20060424 Multiple browsers Windows mailto protocol Office 2003 file attachment exploit

mailing-list

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office-mailto-obtain-information(26118)

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