CVE-2006-3657

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
30.9%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: July 18, 2006 (7240 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow exception) via a DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient ActiveX object with a long (1) StartColorStr or (2) EndColorStr property.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 browserfun.blogspot.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.vupen.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com