CVE-2007-1114

medium

Description

The child frames in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 inherit the default charset from the parent window when a charset is not specified in an HTTP Content-Type header or META tag, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, as demonstrated using the UTF-7 character set.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0744

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22701

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461076/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/32119

http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_032007.142.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/24314

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-02-26

Updated: 2018-10-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium