CVE-2005-0553

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 50.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in the memory management routines in the DHTML object processor in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious web page or HTML e-mail, aka "DHTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01-sp3, 5.01-sp4, 5.5-sp2, 6.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/14922/
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=228&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/774338
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA05-102A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2005/ms05-020
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19831
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1695
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3100
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3752
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4874
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4985
http://secunia.com/advisories/14922/

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