CVE-2006-3472

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

10.6%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTML page with an A tag containing a long title attribute. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-07-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 10.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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