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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2006-2382 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…

published 2006-06-13 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-2383

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
48.6%
EPSS 48.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML that results in size discrepancies during conversion to Unicode, aka "HTML Decoding Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Exploit prediction

48.57% 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 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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.