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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-2087 json

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 up to 6 on various Windows operating systems, including IE 6.0.2900.2180 on Windows XP, allows remote attackers…

published 2005-06-30 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2089

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
61.4%
EPSS 61.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 up to 6 on various Windows operating systems, including IE 6.0.2900.2180 on Windows XP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, as demonstrated using the JVIEW Profiler (Javaprxy.dll). NOTE: the researcher says that the vendor could not reproduce this problem.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-1079)

Exploit prediction

61.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1079 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'javaprxy.dll' COM Object Remote Overflow remote, 2005-07-05

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

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.