CVE-2007-3550: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 27.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to fill Zones with arbitrary domains using certain metacharacters such as wildcards via JavaScript, which results in a denial of service (website suppression and resource consumption), aka "Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page Suppressing". NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the zone settings cannot be manipulated

Affected products

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

Published 2007-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.