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CVE-2007-4356

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.3 Published: 2007-08-15 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References