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medium 5.0

CVE-2006-3915 json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by iterating over any native f…

published 2006-07-28 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3909

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
21.6%
EPSS 21.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by iterating over any native function, as demonstrated with the window.alert function, which triggers a null dereference.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-28265)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

21.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-28265 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Native Function Iterator Denial of Service dos, 2006-07-24
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19140 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • browserfun.blogspot.com http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-25-native-function-iterator.html 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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