CVE-2008-4381

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
30.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: October 2, 2008 (6433 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.openwall.com 🔗 www.openwall.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com