CVE-2006-2055

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-88

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Outlook: 2003-sp1

References

http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19819
http://www.osvdb.org/25003
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
http://secunia.com/advisories/19819
http://www.osvdb.org/25003
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

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