National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-2227

Overview

The MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and Windows Mail in Windows Vista does not properly handle Content-Disposition "notifications," which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from other Internet Explorer domains, aka "Content Disposition Parsing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-163A

Name: TA07-163A

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

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: OSVDB

Name: 35346

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/35346

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018234

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018234

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018233

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018233

External Source: BID

Name: 24410

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24410

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: HP

Name: SSRT071438

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/471947/100/0/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:2085

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2085

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2085

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2085

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2085