National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2225

Overview

A component in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and Windows Mail in Windows Vista does not properly handle certain HTTP headers when processing MHTML protocol URLs, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from other Internet Explorer domains, aka "URL Parsing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-163A

Name: TA07-163A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-163A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#682825

Name: VU#682825

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/682825

External Source: MS

Name: MS07-034

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-034.mspx

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-2154

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2154

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBST02231

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/471947/100/0/threaded

External Source: HP

Name: HPSBST02231

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/471947/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 35345

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35345

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018232

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018232

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018231

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018231

External Source: BID

Name: 24392

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24392

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070622 MS07-034: Executing arbitrary script with mhtml: protocol handler

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/472002/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25639

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25639

External Source: MISC

Name: http://openmya.hacker.jp/hasegawa/security/ms07-034.txt

Hyperlink:http://openmya.hacker.jp/hasegawa/security/ms07-034.txt

External Source: MISC

Name: http://archive.openmya.devnull.jp/2007.06/msg00060.html

Hyperlink:http://archive.openmya.devnull.jp/2007.06/msg00060.html

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2045

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2045

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2045

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2045

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2045