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Microsoft Windows URI Handling Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA26201
Release Date: 2007-07-26
Last Update: 2007-11-13
Popularity: 64,419 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error within the Windows shell (shell32.dll) when handling specially crafted URIs with registered URI handlers (e.g. "mailto", "news", "nntp", "snews", "telnet", and "http"). This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands when a user of certain applications (e.g. Firefox) visits a malicious website or clicks on a link with a specially crafted URI containing a "%" character and ending with a certain extension (e.g. ".bat" or ".cmd").

Examples:
mailto:test%../../../../windows/system32/calc.exe".cmd
nntp:../../../../../Windows/system32/telnet.exe" "secunia.com 80%.bat

Successful exploitation using currently known vectors requires that Internet Explorer 7 is installed on the system, though the core problem exists on Windows system with other versions of Internet Explorer as well.

The following applications have been identified as attack vectors on a fully patched Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP2 system:
* Firefox version 2.0.0.5
* Netscape Navigator version 9.0b2
* mIRC version 6.3
* Adobe Reader/Acrobat version 8.1 and prior (when opening PDF files)
* Outlook Express 6 (e.g. when following specially crafted links in VCards)
* Outlook 2000 (e.g. when following specially crafted links in VCards)

Other versions and applications may also be affected.

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