Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside…

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

22.2% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 20090725 DoS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3130/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 19228 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-orphan-object-properties.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ie-deleted-frame-dos(28068) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 27533 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:50 UTC.