Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2005-4717
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a certain combination of a malformed HTML file and a CSS file that triggers a null dereference, probably related to rendering of a DIV element that contains a malformed IMG tag, as demonstrated by IEcrash.htm and IEcrash.rar.
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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: 0.163 (96.9th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.163 · newest: 0.163 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server — versions sp1
- Microsoft Windows Nt — versions 4.0
- Microsoft Windows Xp
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html (mailing-list, Exploit)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/15268 (Exploit, vdb-entry)