CVE-2005-1791

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 (6.0.2900.2180) crashes when the user attempts to add a URI to the restricted zone, in which the full domain name of the URI begins with numeric sequences similar to an IP address. NOTE: if there is not an exploit scenario in which an attacker can trigger this behavior, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Published

2005-05-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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