CVE-2007-1749

highpriority · attend · 62EPSS 0.415 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

41.5% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

Integer underflow in the CDownloadSink class code in the Vector Markup Language (VML) component (VGX.DLL), as used in Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via compressed content with an invalid buffer size, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-122USLLM-inferredCWE-191USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-30494Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - Vector Markup Language 'VGX.dll' Remote Buffer Overflowfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft internet explorer= 5.01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2007-08-14modified 2026-06-16

references (22)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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