CVE-2006-2382

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

48.6%

EPSS pct

99th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML that results in size discrepancies during conversion to Unicode, aka "HTML Decoding Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2006-06-13

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 48.6% 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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