Improper input validation in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2006-6956

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page that contains a large number of nested marquee tags, a related issue to CVE-2006-2723.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.105 (95.6th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2006-6956: held from 0.105 to 0.105.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.105 · newest: 0.105 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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