CVE-2007-0217
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 58.4%EU EUVD
The wininet.dll FTP client code in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP server response of a specific length that causes a terminating null byte to be written outside of a buffer, which causes heap corruption.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 58.4% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0219)
- Published
- February 13, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0219 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / ie
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / windows 2000
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows 2003 server
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=473
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24156
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/613564(US Government Resource)
- http://www.osvdb.org/31892
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/462303/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22489
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017642
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0584
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-016
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1141
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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