Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-3898
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the Click method of the Internet.HHCtrl.1 ActiveX object before initializing the URL, which triggers a null dereference.
Published · last modified .
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: 0.243 (97.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.243 · newest: 0.243 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6.0
References
- www.osvdb.org/27231 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27929 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2952 (vdb-entry, Not Applicable)
- browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-22-internethhctrl-click.html (Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19109 (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)