Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-3955

Title: Linkedin Toolbar RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-3955

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jul 24, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

8.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-3955: Buffer overflow in the IEToolbar.IEContextMenu.1 ActiveX control in LinkedInIEToolbar.dll in the LinkedIn Toolbar 3.0.2.1098 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long second argument (varBrowser argument) to the search method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impacted Vendors

google 1

rediff 1

linkedin 1

Reference Links

http://osvdb.org/37696 http://secunia.com/advisories/26181 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25032 http://www.vdalabs.com/tools/linkedin.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2620 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35578 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4217 http://osvdb.org/37696 http://secunia.com/advisories/26181 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25032 http://www.vdalabs.com/tools/linkedin.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2620 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35578 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4217

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-3955 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4217

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 24, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.