CVE-2006-1992

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Nested OBJECT Tag Memory Corruption

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2006-04-22 First Exploit
2006-04-24 CVE Reserved
2006-04-25 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-399: Resource Management Errors

CAPEC

References (13)

URL	Tag	Source
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html	Mailing List
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html	Mailing List
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781	Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/27475	Vdb Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded	Mailing List
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27727	2006-04-22
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001	2024-08-07
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658	2024-08-07

URL	Date	SRC
http://secunia.com/advisories/19762	2021-07-23
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291	2021-07-23

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507	2021-07-23
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021	2021-07-23

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Internet Explorer Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Internet Explorer"				6.0.2900 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Internet Explorer" and version "6.0.2900"		-		Affected