CVE-2007-4356

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

5.6%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 embeds FTP credentials in HTML files that are retrieved during an FTP session, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source, as demonstrated by a (1) .htm, (2) .html, or (3) .mht file.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

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

Published

2007-08-15

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 5.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-4356.
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