CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0942

9.3 HIGH Published 2007-05-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2007-05-08
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6 and 7 on Windows XP SP2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2; and possibly 7 on Windows Vista does not properly "instantiate certain COM objects as ActiveX controls," which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted COM object from chtskdic.dll.

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 6.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0 • microsoft internet explorer 7.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23769 Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/34399 www.osvdb.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018019 www.securitytracker.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1712 Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-027 docs.microsoft.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33252 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1939 oval.cisecurity.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/23769 Vendor Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/34399 www.osvdb.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018019 www.securitytracker.com
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1712 Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-027 docs.microsoft.com
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33252 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1939 oval.cisecurity.org