CVE-2005-2127

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 63.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not intended for use within Internet Explorer, as originally demonstrated using the (1) DDS Library Shape Control (Msdds.dll) COM object, and other objects including (2) Blnmgrps.dll, (3) Ciodm.dll, (4) Comsvcs.dll, (5) Danim.dll, (6) Htmlmarq.ocx, (7) Mdt2dd.dll (as demonstrated using a heap corruption attack with uninitialized memory), (8) Mdt2qd.dll, (9) Mpg4ds32.ax, (10) Msadds32.ax, (11) Msb1esen.dll, (12) Msb1fren.dll, (13) Msb1geen.dll, (14) Msdtctm.dll, (15) Mshtml.dll, (16) Msoeacct.dll, (17) Msosvfbr.dll, (18) Mswcrun.dll, (19) Netshell.dll, (20) Ole2disp.dll, (21) Outllib.dll, (22) Psisdecd.dll, (23) Qdvd.dll, (24) Repodbc.dll, (25) Shdocvw.dll, (26) Shell32.dll, (27) Soa.dll, (28) Srchui.dll, (29) Stobject.dll, (30) Vdt70.dll, (31) Vmhelper.dll, and (32) Wbemads.dll, aka a variant of the "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption vulnerability."

Affected products

Ati Catalyst Driver: all versions
Microsoft .NET Framework: 1.1, 1.1-sp1, 1.1-sp2, 1.1-sp3
Microsoft Office: 2000, 2000-sp1, 2000-sp2, 2000-sp3, xp-sp1, xp-sp2 (+1)
Microsoft Project: 98, 2000, 2002, 2002-sp1, 2003, 2003-sp1
Microsoft Visio: 2000-sr1, 2002, 2002-sp1, 2002-sp2, 2003, 2003-sp1
Microsoft Visual Studio .Net: 2002-gold, 2003, 2003-gold, gold

References

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