PT-2007-2541 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2007-02-26 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-1114

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by exploiting the default charset inheritance of child frames from the parent window when a charset is not specified. This can be demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7, consider specifying a charset in the HTTP Content-Type header or META tag to prevent the default charset from being inherited by child frames, thereby minimizing the risk of cross-site scripting attacks.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-1114

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 7

• http://hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1114 · Security Note
• http://osvdb.org/32119 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24314 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0744 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/22701 · Note