CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-1692

7.5 HIGH Published 2007-03-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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