CVE detail

CVE-2007-4040 — CVE-2007-4040

Published 2007-07-27 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor microsoft · Product outlook · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.1347

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

96.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

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.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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