CVE-2006-2055

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-88

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.htmlBroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/19819Broken Link
http://www.osvdb.org/25003Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538Broken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.htmlBroken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/19819Broken Link
http://www.osvdb.org/25003Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538Broken Link
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Apr 26, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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