CVE-2007-4040

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
12.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 6% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: July 27, 2007 (6865 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-79

Affected Products

microsoft outlookmicrosoft outlook express

References

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