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CVE-2006-2057

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2006-04-26 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Mozilla Firefox

Weakness Type

CWE-88

References