CVE-2005-1988

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

45.6%

EPSS pct

99th

Exploited

No known

Unknown vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web site or an HTML e-mail containing a crafted JPEG image that causes memory corruption, aka "JPEG Image Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-08-10

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 45.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

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