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high 7.6

CVE-2006-4777 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DirectAnimation Path Control (DirectAnimation.PathControl) COM object (daxctle.ocx) for Internet Explorer…

published 2006-09-14 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-4764

cvss
7.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
79.9%
EPSS 79.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in the DirectAnimation Path Control (DirectAnimation.PathControl) COM object (daxctle.ocx) for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, on Chinese and possibly other Windows distributions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown manipulations in arguments to the KeyFrame method, possibly related to an integer overflow, as demonstrated by daxctle2, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4446.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-2358)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

79.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms06_067_keyframe MS06-067 Microsoft Internet Explorer Daxctle.OCX KeyFrame Method Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability metasploit exploit, normal rank, 2006-11-14
  • EDB-16506 Microsoft Internet Explorer - Daxctle.OCX KeyFrame Method Heap Buffer Overflow (MS06-067) (Metasploit) remote, 2010-07-16
  • EDB-2358 Microsoft Internet Explorer - COM Object Remote Heap Overflow remote, 2006-09-13

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/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

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.