Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-1992
mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.6 (Low). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.404 (98.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.404 · newest: 0.404 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6.0.2900
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html (mailing-list)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/781 (third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.osvdb.org/27475 (vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/19762 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)