CVE-2006-4697

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 31.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 uses certain COM objects from Imjpcksid.dll as ActiveX controls, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2006-4193.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01-sp4, 6.0, 7.0

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24156
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/753924
http://www.osvdb.org/31891
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22486
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0584
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-016
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1120
http://secunia.com/advisories/24156
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/753924
http://www.osvdb.org/31891
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22486

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