Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to…

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1 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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

15.4% · top 3.2% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-88 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-88 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• ADV-2006-1538 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 20060424 Multiple browsers Windows mailto protocol Office 2003 file attachment exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• office-mailto-obtain-information(26118) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 19819 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 25003 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:35 UTC.