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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-3658 json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by accessing the object references of a FolderIt…

published 2006-07-17 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-3653

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.6%
EPSS 12.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by accessing the object references of a FolderItem ActiveX object, which triggers a null dereference in the security check.

Exploit prediction

12.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • browserfun.blogspot.com http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-15-folderitem-access.html 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

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.