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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2005-1990 json

Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary…

published 2005-08-10 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1992

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
48.5%
EPSS 48.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, including (1) devenum.dll, (2) diactfrm.dll, (3) wmm2filt.dll, (4) fsusd.dll, (5) dmdskmgr.dll, (6) browsewm.dll, (7) browseui.dll, (8) shell32.dll, (9) mshtml.dll, (10) inetcfg.dll, (11) infosoft.dll, (12) query.dll, (13) syncui.dll, (14) clbcatex.dll, (15) clbcatq.dll, (16) comsvcs.dll, and (17) msconf.dll, which causes memory corruption, aka "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2087.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-1144)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

48.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1144 Microsoft Internet Explorer - 'blnmgr.dll' COM Object Remote (MS05-038) remote, 2005-08-09

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/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.