CVE-2005-1990

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
82.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: August 10, 2005 (7582 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, including (1) devenum.dll, (2) diactfrm.dll, (3) wmm2filt.dll, (4) fsusd.dll, (5) dmdskmgr.dll, (6) browsewm.dll, (7) browseui.dll, (8) shell32.dll, (9) mshtml.dll, (10) inetcfg.dll, (11) infosoft.dll, (12) query.dll, (13) syncui.dll, (14) clbcatex.dll, (15) clbcatq.dll, (16) comsvcs.dll, and (17) msconf.dll, which causes memory corruption, aka "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2087.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.us-cert.gov