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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-2057

Original release date:04/26/2006

Last revised:03/08/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)

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 disclosure of information

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-1538

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060424 Multiple browsers Windows mailto protocol Office 2003 file attachment exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: XF

Name: office-mailto-obtain-information(26118)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26118