Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2007-1114
The child frames in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 inherit the default charset from the parent window when a charset is not specified in an HTTP Content-Type header or META tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.120 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.116 · newest: 0.120 · change: +0.004
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 7.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/24314 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0744 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/32119 (vdb-entry)