CVE-2007-3576 (GCVE-0-2007-3576)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:21 Disputed
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://groups.google.com/group/php-ids/browse_thr… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://osvdb.org/45813 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C13209%2C13218 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.0x000000.com/?i=375 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070702/ie60-protocol-g… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2007-07-02 00:00
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