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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2006-2094 json

Microsoft Internet Explorer before Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, when Prompt is configured in Security…

published 2006-04-29 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2095

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
23.3%
EPSS 23.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer before Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, when Prompt is configured in Security Settings, uses modal dialogs to verify that a user wishes to run an ActiveX control or perform other risky actions, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to construct a race condition that tricks a user into clicking an object or pressing keys that are actually applied to a "Yes" approval for executing the control.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-27744)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

23.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-27744 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - Modal Dialog Manipulation remote, 2006-04-26
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17713 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

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.