CVE-2007-3550

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 27.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to fill Zones with arbitrary domains using certain metacharacters such as wildcards via JavaScript, which results in a denial of service (website suppression and resource consumption), aka "Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page Suppressing". NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the zone settings cannot be manipulated

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1, 6.0-sp2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0, 7.0, 7.0-beta1, 7.0-beta2, 7.0-beta3

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064326.html
http://osvdb.org/45814
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2855
http://www.secniche.org/advisory/Internet_Dos_Adv.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472651/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473662
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485536/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24744
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35455
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-July/064326.html
http://osvdb.org/45814
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2855

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