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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2006-4301 json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long Color attribute in multiple Dir…

published 2006-08-23 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-4289

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
39.1%
EPSS 39.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long Color attribute in multiple DirectX Media Image DirectX Transforms ActiveX COM Objects from (a) dxtmsft.dll and (b) dxtmsft3.dll, including (1) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.MaskFilter.1, (2) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma.1, and (3) DX3DTransform.Microsoft.Shapes.1.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-28421)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

39.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-28421 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Multiple COM Object Color Property Denial of Service Vulnerabilities dos, 2006-08-21
  • EDB-4251 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - DirectX Media Remote Overflow Denial of Service dos, 2007-07-31
  • xsec.org http://xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=1&id=17 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19640 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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