CVE-2006-2057

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% 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 Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 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

Mozilla Firefox: 1.0.6

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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