CVE-2007-5355

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) feature in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7, when a primary DNS suffix with three or more components is configured, resolves an unqualified wpad hostname in a second-level domain outside this configured DNS domain, which allows remote WPAD servers to conduct man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01-sp4, 6-sp1, 6, 7

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/27901
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945713
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/945713.mspx
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26686
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019033
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4064
http://secunia.com/advisories/27901
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945713
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/945713.mspx
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26686
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019033
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4064

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