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critical 10.0

CVE-2006-1189 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in URLMON.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted…

published 2006-04-11 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-1193

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
61.7%
EPSS 61.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in URLMON.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL with an International Domain Name (IDN) using double-byte character sets (DBCS), aka the "Double Byte Character Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-1838)

Exploit prediction

61.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1838 Microsoft Internet Explorer - HTML Tag Memory Corruption (MS06-013) dos, 2006-05-27

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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