CVE-2007-3576 (GCVE-0-2007-3576)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:21 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme names with 10 or more characters, which might allow remote attackers to bypass certain XSS protection schemes. NOTE: other researchers dispute the significance of this issue, stating "this only works when typed in the address bar.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2007-07-02 00:00
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