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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2005-2831 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute…

published 2005-12-14 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2832

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
30.1%
EPSS 30.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 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 intended for use within Internet Explorer, aka a variant of the "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2127.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

30.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/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.