CVE-2007-4356

medium

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 embeds FTP credentials in HTML files that are retrieved during an FTP session, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source, as demonstrated by a (1) .htm, (2) .html, or (3) .mht file.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/26427

http://osvdb.org/36400

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/ftp_files_expose_web_site_cred.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-08-15

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05616