CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-2056

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2006-04-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-04-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-88

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness

References