CVE-2007-3550: microsoft ie Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-3550 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Code Injection vulnerability in microsoft ie. EPSS estimates a 27.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 03-07-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to fill Zones with arbitrary domains using certain metacharacters such as wildcards via JavaScript, which results in a denial of service (website suppression and resource consumption), aka "Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page Suppressing". NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the zone settings cannot be manipulated

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.