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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2006-2218 in the critical feed json

Unspecified vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "excep…

published 2006-05-05 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2219

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
33.1%
EPSS 33.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 on Microsoft Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via "exceptional conditions" that trigger memory corruption, as demonstrated using an exception handler and nested object tags, a variant of CVE-2006-1992.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

33.07% 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 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/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.