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CVE-2007-2161

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2007-04-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 /(.)*/.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References