CVE-2006-2218

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
53.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: May 5, 2006 (7314 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "exceptional conditions" that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated using an exception handler and nested object tags, a variant of CVE-2006-1992.

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 www.osvdb.org