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high 7.5

CVE-2005-0554 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the URL processor of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (…

published 2005-04-13 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-0555

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
57.9%
EPSS 57.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the URL processor of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a URL with a long hostname, aka "URL Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-931)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

57.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-931 Microsoft Internet Explorer - DHTML Object Handling (MS05-020) dos, 2005-04-12

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.