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critical 10.0

CVE-2004-1050 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long (1) SRC or (2) NAME attributes…

published 2004-11-18 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-1048

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
67.1%
EPSS 67.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long (1) SRC or (2) NAME attributes in IFRAME, FRAME, and EMBED elements, as originally discovered using the mangleme utility, aka "the IFRAME vulnerability" or the "HTML Elements Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-612)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

67.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-612 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - IFRAME Tag Buffer Overflow remote, 2004-11-02

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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