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CVE-2007-4848 (GCVE-0-2007-4848)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-12 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:08
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 through 7 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of local files that have associated images via a res:// URI in the src property of a JavaScript Image object, as demonstrated by the URI for a bitmap image resource within a (1) .exe or (2) .dll file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://osvdb.org/37638 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://xs-sniper.com/blog/2007/07/20/more-uri-stu… x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2007-07-20 00:00
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