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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2005-0553 json

Race condition in the memory management routines in the DHTML object processor in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remot…

published 2005-04-13 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0554

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
50.6%
EPSS 50.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Race condition in the memory management routines in the DHTML object processor in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious web page or HTML e-mail, aka "DHTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-25386)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

50.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-25386 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - DHTML Object Race Condition Memory Corruption remote, 2005-04-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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.