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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2006-6310

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid src attribute value ("?") in an HTML frame tag that is in a frameset tag with a large rows attribute.

EXPLOIT ✓MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 15.8%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 15.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid src attribute value ("?") in an HTML frame tag that is in a frameset tag with a large rows attribute. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
15.77% probability · 97th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 5 December 2006
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/internet explorer
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%10%20%26 October 2026: 15.77%26 October 202626 October 2026

EPSS 15.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-29229source ↗Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Frame Src Denial of Servicewindows · Juan Pablo Lopezdos5 December 2006yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.