CVE-2007-4356: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 embeds FTP credentials in HTML files that are retrieved during an FTP session, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source, as demonstrated by a (1) .htm, (2) .html, or (3) .mht file.

Affected products

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

Published 2007-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.