CVE-2007-4040
moderate-risk
Published 2007-07-27
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.
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12.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 87% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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8
CVSS 8.8/10
High
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (2)
Affected Vendors
49
/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
30/34 · Critical
Exploitability
12/34 · Low
Exposure
7/34 · Low