High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2007· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2007-4040
CVE-2007-4040
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.
Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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