High severity · published Jul 27, 2007
CVE-2007-4040
Argument injection vulnerability involving Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting…
8.8
CVSS
13.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Argument injection vulnerability involving Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, when certain URIs are registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an unspecified URI, which are inserted into the command line when invoking the handling process, a similar issue to CVE-2007-3670.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)13.5% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OU
Outlook · Microsoft
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
OE
Outlook Express · Microsoft
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4040
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4040
larholm.com
http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
seclists.org
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html
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