CVE-2007-0099
Race condition in the msxml3 module in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0, as used in Internet Explorer 6 and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via many nested tags in an XML document in an IFRAME, when synchronous document rendering is frequently disrupted with asynchronous events, as demonstrated using a JavaScript timer, which can trigger NULL pointer dereferences or memory corruption, aka "MSXML Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 25.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0103)
- Published
- January 8, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0103 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / xml core services
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0113.html
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=2004
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
- http://osvdb.org/32627
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jan/0110.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23655(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455965/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455986/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456343/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21872(Patch)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111(Vendor Advisory)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5793
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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