CVE-2007-3150

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-06-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Google Desktop allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via a man-in-the-middle attack that injects JavaScript, a www.google.com search IFRAME, and a META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" that targets a www.google.com search for a local .exe file, which is displayed in the "results stored on your computer" portion of the search results, and when clicked invokes Google Desktop to execute this file.

Affected products

Google Desktop: all versions

References

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070531/google-desktop-0day/
http://ha.ckers.org/google-desktop-0day/
http://osvdb.org/40566
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070531/google-desktop-0day/
http://ha.ckers.org/google-desktop-0day/
http://osvdb.org/40566

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