CVE-2006-7030
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed HTML, possibly involving applet and base tags without required arguments, which triggers a null pointer dereference in…
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 16.5%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed HTML, possibly involving applet and base tags without required arguments, which triggers a null pointer dereference in mshtml.dll.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 16.46% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/ie
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2286
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435095/30/4710/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435129/30/4710/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18112
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26808
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2286
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435095/30/4710/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435129/30/4710/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18112
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26808
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.