Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2007-3091
Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1; 6 and 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 6 and 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform other actions upon a page transition, with the permissions of the old page and the content of the new page, as demonstrated by setInterval functions that set location.href within a try/catch expression, aka the "bait & switch vulnerability" or "Race Condition Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.277 (98.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.277 · newest: 0.277 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6, 7.0
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server — versions sp1, sp2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Xp
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1538 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/25564 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-019 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/24283 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/471361 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-06/0026.html (mailing-list)
- lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ierace/
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470446/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- osvdb.org/54944 (vdb-entry)