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CVE-2006-4560

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-09-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of the browser's session with an arbitrary intranet web server, by hosting script on an Internet web server that can be made inaccessible by the attacker and that has a domain name under the attacker's control, which can force the browser to drop DNS pinning and perform a new DNS query for the domain name after the script is already running.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 6-windows_server_2003_sp1

References

• http://polyboy.net/xss/dnsslurp.html
• http://shampoo.antville.org/stories/1451301/
• http://www.osvdb.org/31329
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443209/100/200/threaded
• http://polyboy.net/xss/dnsslurp.html
• http://shampoo.antville.org/stories/1451301/
• http://www.osvdb.org/31329
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443209/100/200/threaded

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