CVE-2007-4040 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.12518.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express::::::::

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Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Microsoft Subscribe	Outlook Subscribe Outlook Express Subscribe

Tracking

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Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://larholm.com/2007/07/25/mozilla-protocol-abuse/
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0557.html

History

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-07-27T22:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-03T14:27:23.595Z

Reserved: 2007-07-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-4040

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:37:06.210Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-07-27T22:30:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-4040

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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