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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2005-1988 json

Unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web site or an HTML e-…

published 2005-08-10 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1990

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
45.6%
EPSS 45.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web site or an HTML e-mail containing a crafted JPEG image that causes memory corruption, aka "JPEG Image Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-25991)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

45.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-25991 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - '.JPEG' Image Rendering Buffer Overflow dos, 2005-07-15
  • EDB-1144 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'blnmgr.dll' COM Object Remote (MS05-038) remote, 2005-08-09

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.