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CVE-2006-5162
wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception…
Medium5.0EPSS 36.5%
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- mitre
Description
wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 36.5% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 29129 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ie-wininet-dos(27900) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 2039 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- ADV-2006-2917 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20060722 Microsoft Internet Explorer DOS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 19092 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1683 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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