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CVE-2007-3091

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 27.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1; 6 and 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 6 and 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform other actions upon a page transition, with the permissions of the old page and the content of the new page, as demonstrated by setInterval functions that set location.href within a try/catch expression, aka the "bait & switch vulnerability" or "Race Condition Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 7.0, 6-sp1
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: sp1, sp2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-06/0026.html
• http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ierace/
• http://osvdb.org/38497
• http://osvdb.org/54944
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25564
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2781
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1018192
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/471361
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470446/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24283
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-160A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2064

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