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CVE-2006-3898

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 24.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the Click method of the Internet.HHCtrl.1 ActiveX object before initializing the URL, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0, 6.0-sp1, 6.0-sp2

References

• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-22-internethhctrl-click.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/27231
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19109
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2952
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27929
• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-22-internethhctrl-click.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/27231
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19109
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2952
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27929

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