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medium 5.0

CVE-2006-3899 json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the s…

published 2006-07-27 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3893

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.3%
EPSS 24.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an invalid memory access inside the SysAllocStringLen function.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-28252)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

24.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-28252 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - String To Binary Function Denial of Service dos, 2006-07-20
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

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