CVE-2006-2056 — Argument Injection in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CWE-88 — Argument Injection3 documents3 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
21.0%
top 4.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Timeline
PublishedApr 26
Latest updateMay 1

Description

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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:N/A:NExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-w4w3-5rjf-gvqh: Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to a↗2022-05-01
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📐Framework References

1
CWE
Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')↗
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