CVE-2007-3550

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 - Denial of Service via Zone Domain Specification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to fill Zones with arbitrary domains using certain metacharacters such as wildcards via JavaScript, which results in a denial of service (website suppression and resource consumption), aka "Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page Suppressing". NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the zone settings cannot be manipulated

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/45814
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35455
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485536/100/0/threaded
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24744
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2855
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472651/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473662
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064326.html

Scores

EPSS 0.2751
EPSS Percentile 97.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (3)
microsoft/ie 6.0 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/internet_explorer 6.0
microsoft/internet_explorer 7.0 (4 CPE variants)
Published Jul 03, 2007
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026