01 Record
CVE-2006-2056
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)
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 12.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-04-26 20:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-04-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-88Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 652bd747daf2d72abcf6b22c3857444a5da6a55dd4024a58bd5360f33940423e
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-1538http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538
- ingehenriksen.blogspot.comhttp://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
- www.securityfocus.com20060424 Multiple browsers Windows mailto protocol Office 2003 file attachment exploithttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comoffice-mailto-obtain-information(26118)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118