CVE-2007-4040

Argument injection vulnerability involving Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2007-07-27

Last modified

2025-04-03

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Outlook (Microsoft)
• Outlook Express (Microsoft)

References

• http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html