CVE-2007-3550
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to fill Zones with arbitrary domains using certain metacharacters such as wildcards via JavaScript, which results in a denial of service (website suppression and resource consumption), aka "Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page Suppressing". NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the zone settings cannot be manipulated
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 27.5% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-3534)
- Published
- July 3, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-3534 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / ie
- microsoft / ie
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064326.html
- http://osvdb.org/45814
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2855
- http://www.secniche.org/advisory/Internet_Dos_Adv.pdf(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472651/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473662
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485536/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24744(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35455
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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