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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2005-4843 in the critical feed json

The SmartConnect Class control allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by creating a COM object of t…

published 2005-12-31 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-4835

cvss
7.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.2%
EPSS 11.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The SmartConnect Class control allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by creating a COM object of the class associated with the control's CLSID, which is not intended for use within Internet Explorer.

Exploit prediction

11.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.