Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-7066
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.222 (97.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.216 · newest: 0.222 · change: +0.006
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Windows Xp
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html (mailing-list, Broken Link)
- websecurity.com.ua/3130/ (Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19228 (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-orphan-object-properties.html (Broken Link)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28068 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/27533 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554 (Permissions Required)