Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 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

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2056
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118
• http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538