CVE-2007-0612

Microsoft IE - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2007-0612. PoCs published by Alexander Sotirov.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer by creating an ActiveXObject with an invalid class name ('giffile') and accessing its 'bgColor' property, causing the browser to crash.

Description

Multiple ActiveX controls in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by accessing the bgColor, fgColor, linkColor, alinkColor, vlinkColor, or defaultCharset properties in the (1) giffile, (2) htmlfile, (3) jpegfile, (4) mhtmlfile, (5) ODCfile, (6) pjpegfile, (7) pngfile, (8) xbmfile, (9) xmlfile, (10) xslfile, or (11) wdfile objects in (a) mshtml.dll; or the (12) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument or (13) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument.1 objects in (b) triedit.dll, which cause a NULL pointer dereference.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Alexander Sotirov · htmldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29536

This exploit triggers a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer by creating an ActiveXObject with an invalid class name ('giffile') and accessing its 'bgColor' property, causing the browser to crash.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Microsoft Internet Explorer (versions affected by CVE-2007-0612)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Victim must visit a malicious webpage
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (8)

Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0547.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458443/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/32628
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31867
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2199
Exploit vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22288

Scores

EPSS 0.4288
EPSS Percentile 98.5%

Details

Status published
Products (7)
microsoft/ie 5.0_ta3
microsoft/ie 6.0 sp1
microsoft/ie 7.0
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.0.1 (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.5
microsoft/internet_explorer 6.0
microsoft/internet_explorer 7.0 beta1 (2 CPE variants)
Published Jan 31, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026