FKIE_CVE-2007-3481

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-06-28 18:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:42
Severity
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
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/38953
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.0x000000.com/?i=371
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24704
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/38953
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.0x000000.com/?i=371
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24704
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
microsoft internet_explorer 6
microsoft internet_explorer 7
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