Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2005-2087
Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 up to 6 on various Windows operating systems, including IE 6.0.2900.2180 on Windows XP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, as demonstrated using the JVIEW Profiler (Javaprxy.dll). NOTE: the researcher says that the vendor could not reproduce this problem.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.614 (99.2th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.614 · newest: 0.614 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 5.1, 5.2.3, 6
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.1, 5.01, 5.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1326 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/959049 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-193A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:793 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/939605 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1506 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/14087 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/404055 (mailing-list)