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CVE-2007-3576
published 2007-07-05

CVE-2007-3576: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript…

PriorityP416medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNIPAN
EPSS
12.87%
95.8th percentile
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.

Affected

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftinternet_explorer
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