CVE-2007-2291

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-04-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the Digest Authentication support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 allows remote attackers to conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a LF (%0a) in the username attribute.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 7.0.5730.11

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2654
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466906/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23668
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017969
http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?id=11
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33978
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2654
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466906/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23668
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017969
http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?id=11
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33978

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