{"id":"CVE-2006-4888","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-4888","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:44:10.182Z","title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a CSS-formatted HTML INPUT element within a DIV element that has a larger size than the INPUT.","description":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a CSS-formatted HTML INPUT element within a DIV element that has a larger size than the INPUT.","published":"2006-09-19T21:07:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:29:59.000Z","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/ie"],"epss":{"score":0.17014,"percentile":0.97051,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 17.0%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0199.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://jonas.elunic.de/blog/index.php/2006/07/14/ie-freeze-bug/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/28614","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0199.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://jonas.elunic.de/blog/index.php/2006/07/14/ie-freeze-bug/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/28614","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4888","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."}