Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-4381
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.184 (97.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.184 · newest: 0.184 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5, 6, 7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45639 (vdb-entry)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/4345 (third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/03/8 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496830/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/03/7 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496926/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)