CVE-2006-3910

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

17.1%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2, when Outlook is installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling the NewDefaultItem function of an OVCtl (OVCtl.OVCtl.1) ActiveX object, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-07-28

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 17.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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