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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-3077 json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page with malformed att…

published 2005-09-27 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-3077

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.9%
EPSS 13.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page with malformed attributes in a BGSOUND tag, possibly involving double-quotes in an about: URI.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-26292)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26292 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac OS - Denial of Service dos, 2005-08-22
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14899 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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