CVE-2008-4381

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

18.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2008-10-02

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496830/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496926/100/0/threaded

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2008-4380
• CVE-2008-4382
• CVE-2008-4379
• CVE-2008-4384
• CVE-2008-4378
• CVE-2008-4385