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CVE-2007-2161
- Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 12.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2007-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.
Affected products
References
- http://osvdb.org/43314
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715
- http://osvdb.org/43314
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715
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