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CVE-2006-2056

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.9% 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 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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0

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
• 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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