CVE-2007-4040
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-07-27 22:00
Modified
2024-09-17 04:04
Severity ?
Summary
Argument injection vulnerability involving Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
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