CVE-2007-3091

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.1
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS Score
18.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
C
Published: June 6, 2007 (6916 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1; 6 and 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 6 and 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform other actions upon a page transition, with the permissions of the old page and the content of the new page, as demonstrated by setInterval functions that set location.href within a try/catch expression, aka the "bait & switch vulnerability" or "Race Condition Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

CWE

CWE-362

Affected Products

microsoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows xpmicrosoft internet explorermicrosoft windows 2000microsoft windows server 2008microsoft windows vista

References