CVE-2007-2161

Published Apr 22, 2007

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "6BC71FD8-D385-4507-BD14-B75FDD4C79E6"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References