Buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2007-3481

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and access restricted information from other domains via JavaScript that overwrites the document variable and statically sets the document.domain attribute. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by other researchers, citing a variable scoping issue and information about the semantics of document.domain

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.159 (96.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6, 7
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)