CVE-2007-4040

HIGH

Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.1347
EPSS Percentile 96.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
microsoft/outlook
microsoft/outlook_express
Published Jul 27, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026