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CVE-2007-0099

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 25.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-01-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the msxml3 module in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0, as used in Internet Explorer 6 and other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via many nested tags in an XML document in an IFRAME, when synchronous document rendering is frequently disrupted with asynchronous events, as demonstrated using a JavaScript timer, which can trigger NULL pointer dereferences or memory corruption, aka "MSXML Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6
• Microsoft Corporation XML Core Services: 3.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0113.html
• http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=2004
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/32627
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jan/0110.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23655
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455965/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455986/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456343/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21872
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html

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