CVE-2007-3091: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 27.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1; 6 and 7 for Windows XP SP2 and SP3; 6 and 7 for Server 2003 SP2; 7 for Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; and 7 for Server 2008 SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or perform other actions upon a page transition, with the permissions of the old page and the content of the new page, as demonstrated by setInterval functions that set location.href within a try/catch expression, aka the "bait & switch vulnerability" or "Race Condition Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7.0 only
• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version sp1 only; version sp2 only
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version; affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

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