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medium 5.0

CVE-2006-5162 json

wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception an…

published 2006-10-03 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5147

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
36.5%
EPSS 36.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-2039)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

36.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-2039 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - 'Content-Type' Stack Overflow Crash dos, 2006-07-20
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityreason.com http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683 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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