Outlook Express CVE-2007-4040 Remote Security Vulnerability

Outlook Express CVE-2007-4040 Remote Security Vulnerability

Outlook Express is prone to a remote security vulnerability. 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.