MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-3955

Toolbar vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
8.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in the IEToolbar.IEContextMenu.1 ActiveX control in LinkedInIEToolbar.dll in the LinkedIn Toolbar 3.0.2.1098 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long second argument (varBrowser argument) to the search method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected vendor
Linkedin
Affected product
Toolbar
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2007-07-24

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 8.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-3955

  • Confirm whether Linkedin Toolbar is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-3955.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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