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High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 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.

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Affected products

4
  • Microsoft/Outlook2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
  • Microsoft/Outlook Express2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)

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