CVE-2007-2161

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 - Denial of Service via Regular Expression Matching

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/43314
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded

Scores

EPSS 0.1228
EPSS Percentile 95.8%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/internet_explorer 7.0
Published Apr 22, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026