CVE-2006-2538

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

IE Tab 1.0.9 plugin for Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), possibly due to a null dereference, via certain Javascript, as demonstrated using a url parameter to the content/reloaded.html page in a chrome:// URI. Some third-party researchers claim that they are unable to reproduce this vulnerability.

Affected products

Ie Tab: 1.0.9
Mozilla Firefox: 1.5.0.3

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434280/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434519/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26540
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434280/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434519/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26540

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