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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2007-0217 in the critical feed json

The wininet.dll FTP client code in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP…

published 2007-02-13 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-0219

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
58.4%
EPSS 58.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The wininet.dll FTP client code in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an FTP server response of a specific length that causes a terminating null byte to be written outside of a buffer, which causes heap corruption.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-3444)

Exploit prediction

58.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-3444 Microsoft Internet Explorer - FTP Server Response Denial of Service (MS07-016) dos, 2007-03-09

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.