Description
Argument injection vulnerability in Avant Browser 10.1 Build 17 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.
References
- ADV-2006-1538 vdb-entry
- http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
- 20060424 Multiple browsers Windows mailto protocol Office 2003 file attachment exploit mailing-list
- 785 third-party-advisory
- office-mailto-obtain-information(26118) vdb-entry