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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2004-0479 json

Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via Javascript that creates a new popup window and disable…

published 2004-05-20 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0478

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
25.8%
EPSS 25.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via Javascript that creates a new popup window and disables the imagetoolbar functionality with a META tag, which triggers a null dereference.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24119)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

25.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24119 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - http-equiv Meta Tag Denial of Service dos, 2004-05-14

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.