CVE-2007-3406

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple absolute path traversal vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allow remote attackers to access arbitrary local files via the file: URI in the (1) src attribute of a (a) bgsound, (b) input, (c) EMBED, (d) img, or (e) script tag; (2) data attribute of an object tag; (3) value attribute of a param tag; (4) background attribute of a body tag; or (5) the background:url attribute declared in the BODY parameter of a STYLE tag.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6

References

http://osvdb.org/45435
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22621
http://www.xdisclose.com/XD100099.txt
http://osvdb.org/45435
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22621
http://www.xdisclose.com/XD100099.txt

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