CVE-2007-0217

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
75.8%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: February 13, 2007 (7029 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The wininet.dll FTP client code in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP server response of a specific length that causes a terminating null byte to be written outside of a buffer, which causes heap corruption.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorermicrosoft ie

References

🔗 labs.idefense.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com