CVE-2006-1992

low Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
55.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: April 25, 2006 (7324 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 lists.grok.org.uk 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 securitytracker.com