CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1448

Published: Aug 13, 2008 | Modified: Oct 12, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.1 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The MHTML protocol handler in a component of Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 SP2 and 6 through SP1, and Windows Mail, does not assign the correct Internet Explorer Security Zone to UNC share pathnames, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read arbitrary files via an mhtml: URI in conjunction with a redirection, aka URL Parsing Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Outlook_express Microsoft 6.0 6.0
Outlook_express Microsoft 5.5 5.5
Windows_mail Microsoft * *
Outlook_express Microsoft 6.0 6.0

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