CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5355
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-12-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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 configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.01
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27901 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945713 support.microsoft.com
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/945713.mspx www.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26686 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019033 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4064 www.vupen.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27901 Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945713 support.microsoft.com
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/945713.mspx www.microsoft.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26686 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019033 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4064 www.vupen.com