CVE-2007-2227
The MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and Windows Mail in Windows Vista does not properly handle Content-Disposition…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
The MHTML protocol handler in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and Windows Mail in Windows Vista does not properly handle Content-Disposition "notifications," which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from other Internet Explorer domains, aka "Content Disposition Parsing Cross Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 25.0% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- MS07-034 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- SSRT071438 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- http://openmya.hacker.jp/hasegawa/security/ms07-034.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070622 MS07-034: Executing arbitrary script with mhtml: protocol handler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1018233 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1018234 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://archive.openmya.devnull.jp/2007.06/msg00060.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 24410 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TA07-163A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 25639 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35346 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2007-2154 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2085 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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