Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2007-5355
The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7, when a primary DNS suffix with three or more components is configured, resolves an unqualified wpad hostname in a second-level domain outside this configured DNS domain, which allows remote WPAD servers to conduct man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.171 (97.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.166 · newest: 0.171 · change: +0.005
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.01, 6, 7
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server — versions 64-bit, 64-bit_sp2, itanium_sp1
- Microsoft Windows Vista
- Microsoft Windows Xp
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4064 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26686 (vdb-entry)
- www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/945713.mspx
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/27901 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- support.microsoft.com/kb/945713 (vendor-advisory)