CVE-2006-0544

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta 2 - 'urlmon.dll' Denial of Service

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 (aka 7.0.5296.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a BGSOUND element with its SRC attribute set to "file://" followed by a large number of "-" (dash of hyphen) characters.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 7.5

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2006-02-04 CVE Reserved
2006-02-04 CVE Published
2006-02-07 First Exploit
2024-09-17 CVE Updated
2024-09-17 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x23-advisory.txt	X_refsource_misc

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1475	2006-02-07
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16463	2024-09-17

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Ie Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Ie"				7.0 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Ie" and version "7.0"		beta_2		Affected