CVE-2006-7030

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Published Feb 23, 2007 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 17.3% KEV · Not listed

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed HTML, possibly involving applet and base tags without required arguments, which triggers a null pointer dereference in mshtml.dll.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

OR	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98::gold::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_me::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp::gold::::::*

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

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Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 17.3% (17.254% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2286
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435095/30/4710/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435129/30/4710/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18112
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26808

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Ie Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Server Windows 98 Windows Me Windows Nt Windows Vista Windows Xp

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 8:50 PM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Feb 23, 2007, 1:00 AM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 8:50 PM
Reserved: Feb 22, 2007, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:34 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Feb 23, 2007, 3:28 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:34 PM

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