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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…
High7.8EPSS 27.5%
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Description
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
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.5% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (9)
- 45814 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ie-zone-dos(35455) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20071222 Bid 24744 ? (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 24744 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 2855 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20070701 Advisory : Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page suppressing. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070712 Bogus BID 24744 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20070701 Advisory : Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page suppressing. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://www.secniche.org/advisory/Internet_Dos_Adv.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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