CVE-2007-1085

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Desktop allows remote attackers to bypass protection schemes and inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and possibly gain full access to the system, by using an XSS vulnerability in google.com to extract the signature for the internal web server, then calling the "under" parameter in Advanced Search with the proper signature.

Affected products

Google Desktop: all versions

References

http://osvdb.org/33483
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2301
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/615857
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460735/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460928/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22650
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017686
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/Overtaking-Google-Desktop.pdf
http://osvdb.org/33483
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2301
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/615857
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460735/100/0/threaded

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