CVE-2006-2723

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified versions of Mozilla Firefox allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page that contains a large number of nested marquee tags. NOTE: a followup post indicated that the initial report could not be verified.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 2.0-rc3

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435373/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435411/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435882/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436268/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18165
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26898
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435373/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435411/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435882/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436268/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18165
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26898

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