CVE-2007-3550

medium

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35455

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24744

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485536/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473662

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472651/100/0/threaded

http://www.secniche.org/advisory/Internet_Dos_Adv.pdf

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2855

http://osvdb.org/45814

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064326.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-07-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.27507