Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 executes web script from URIs of arbitrary scheme names ending with the "script" character sequence, using the (1) vbscript: handler for scheme names with 7 through 9 characters, and the (2) javascript: handler for scheme names with 10 or more characters, which might allow remote attackers to bypass certain XSS protection schemes. NOTE: other researchers dispute the significance of this issue, stating "this only works when typed in the address bar.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T14:21:36.414Z
Reserved: 2007-07-05T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2007-3576
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-07-05T20:30:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-3576
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