CVE-2007-3481: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 15.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and access restricted information from other domains via JavaScript that overwrites the document variable and statically sets the document.domain attribute. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by other researchers, citing a variable scoping issue and information about the semantics of document.domain

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only

Published 2007-06-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.