CVE-2006-2056

Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked…

published April 26, 2006

CVSS
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EPSS
13%
Percentile
96.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.12903 · 96.3th percentile
Published
2006-04-26T20:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 APR 20:00Z
    Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked…
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