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CVE-2007-3481 (GCVE-0-2007-3481)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-06-28 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:21 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and access restricted information from other domains via JavaScript that overwrites the document variable and statically sets the document.domain attribute. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by other researchers, citing a variable scoping issue and information about the semantics of document.domain
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.0x000000.com/?i=371 x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/38953 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24704 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2007-06-28 00:00
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