National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1191
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Web View DLL (webvw.dll), as used in Windows Explorer on Windows 2000 systems, does not properly filter an apostrophe ("'") in the author name in a document, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary script via extra attributes when Web View constructs a mailto: link for the preview pane when the user selects the file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: BID
Name: 13248
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://security.greymagic.com/security/advisories/gm015-ie
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: windows-web-view-command-execution(20380)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050419 File Selection May Lead to Command Execution (GM#015-IE)
External Source: MS
Name: MS05-024
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-0509
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3585
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:3585
Type: Tool Signature
