CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-4356
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-08-15
- 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 6 and 7 embeds FTP credentials in HTML files that are retrieved during an FTP session, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source, as demonstrated by a (1) .htm, (2) .html, or (3) .mht file.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
References
- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/ftp_files_expose_web_site_cred.html blog.washingtonpost.com
- http://osvdb.org/36400 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26427 Vendor Advisory
- http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/ftp_files_expose_web_site_cred.html blog.washingtonpost.com
- http://osvdb.org/36400 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26427 Vendor Advisory