{"id":"CVE-2006-3899","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-3899","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:48:01.757Z","title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an…","description":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an invalid memory access inside the SysAllocStringLen function.","published":"2006-07-27T11:04:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:28:02.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["microsoft/internet explorer"],"epss":{"score":0.24274,"percentile":0.97847,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2006-07-20","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":28252,"kind":"exploit","title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - String To Binary Function Denial of Service","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28252","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/28252.txt","file":"exploits/windows/dos/28252.txt","published":"2006-07-20","added":"2006-07-20","updated":"2013-09-13","author":"hdm","type":"dos","platform":"windows","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2006-3899","OSVDB-27230"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.3%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-21-cenroll-stringtobinary.html","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/27230","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2916","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27884","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-21-cenroll-stringtobinary.html","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/27230","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2916","tags":["Not Applicable"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27884","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3899","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}