CVE-2007-3576 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2007-3576?

CVE-2007-3576 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 5 Jul 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme names with 10 or more characters, which might allow remote attackers to bypass certain XSS protection schemes. NOTE: other researchers dispute the significance of this issue, stating "this only works when typed in the address bar.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3576?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3576?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-3576 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2007-3576 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3576 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer

• CVE-2014-1776 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27085 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0222 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0210 Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2017-0149 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ccwf-cghf-g937.