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CVE-2007-4356

Published: Aug 15, 2007

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

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third-party-advisory

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/ftp_files_expose_web_site_cred.html

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