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CVE-2006-7030
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed HTML,…
Medium5.0EPSS 17.3%
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- mitre
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.
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)
- 17.3% · top 2.9% 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
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Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20060525 [BuHa-Security] DoS Vulnerability in MS IE 6 SP2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 2286 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 18112 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ie-html-tag-parsing-dos(26808) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20060526 Re: [BuHa-Security] DoS Vulnerability in MS IE 6 SP2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
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