CVE-2006-0830

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
21.8%
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 21, 2006 (7386 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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