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CVE-2006-0830

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0.2900

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425283/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425378/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16687
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24788
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425283/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425378/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16687
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24788

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