PT-2007-4367 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2007-06-06 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2007-3075

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Internet Explorer (affected versions not specified)

Description: A directory traversal issue in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files. This is achieved through directory traversal sequences in a URI with a certain scheme, possibly related to "..%5C" (encoded backslash) sequences.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-3075

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3075 · Security Note
• http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070516/read-firefox-settings-poc/#comment-35888 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/45436 · Note