CVE-2006-0544

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
26.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: February 4, 2006 (7404 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 (aka 7.0.5296.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a BGSOUND element with its SRC attribute set to "file://" followed by a large number of "-" (dash of hyphen) characters.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft ie

References

🔗 www.security-protocols.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.security-protocols.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com