CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1692
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-03-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-16
Description
The default configuration of Microsoft Windows uses the Web Proxy Autodiscovery Protocol (WPAD) without static WPAD entries, which might allow remote attackers to intercept web traffic by registering a proxy server using WINS or DNS, then responding to WPAD requests, as demonstrated using Internet Explorer. NOTE: it could be argued that if an attacker already has control over WINS/DNS, then web traffic could already be intercepted by modifying WINS or DNS records, so this would not cross privilege boundaries and would not be a vulnerability. It has also been reported that DHCP is an alternate attack vector.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows 2003 server 2000
• microsoft windows 2003 server r2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/isn/2007-q1/0418.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2517 isc.sans.org
- http://news.com.com/Windows+weakness+can+lead+to+network+traffic+hijacks/2100-1002_3-6170229.html news.com.com
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934864 support.microsoft.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1115 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33244 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/isn/2007-q1/0418.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2517 isc.sans.org
- http://news.com.com/Windows+weakness+can+lead+to+network+traffic+hijacks/2100-1002_3-6170229.html news.com.com
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934864 support.microsoft.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1115 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33244 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com