CVE-2007-2227

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 25.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and Windows Mail in Windows Vista does not properly handle Content-Disposition "notifications," which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from other Internet Explorer domains, aka "Content Disposition Parsing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Outlook Express: 6.0
Microsoft Windows Mail: all versions

References

http://archive.openmya.devnull.jp/2007.06/msg00060.html
http://openmya.hacker.jp/hasegawa/security/ms07-034.txt
http://osvdb.org/35346
http://secunia.com/advisories/25639
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471947/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472002/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24410
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018233
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018234
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-163A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2154
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-034

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