Tracker / CVE-2005-1191
CVE-2005-1191
Medium 5.0
The Web View DLL (webvw.dll), as used in Windows Explorer on Windows 2000 systems, does not properly filter an apostrophe ("'") in the author name in a document, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary script via extra attributes when Web View constructs a mailto: link for the preview pane when the user selects the file.
Affected products and versions
| microsoft | windows_2000 |
|---|---|
| microsoft | windows_98 |
| microsoft | windows_98se |
| microsoft | windows_me |
Analysis
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