CVE-2007-0942: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 32.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 SP4; 6 and 7 on Windows XP SP2, or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or SP2; and possibly 7 on Windows Vista does not properly "instantiate certain COM objects as ActiveX controls," which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted COM object from chtskdic.dll.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2007-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.