CVE-2007-1085

Desktop vulnerability

CVSS

7.6

EPSS

10.8%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Desktop allows remote attackers to bypass protection schemes and inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and possibly gain full access to the system, by using an XSS vulnerability in google.com to extract the signature for the internal web server, then calling the "under" parameter in Advanced Search with the proper signature.

Affected vendor

Google

Affected product

Desktop

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2007-02-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Google Desktop is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-1085.
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