CVE-2006-2056
microsoft internet explorer: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-88
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:internet_explorer
References
- http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118
- http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html