CVE-2006-5805

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a security certificate from a secure web site to appear invalid via a link to res://ieframe.dll/invalidcert.htm with the target site as an argument, which displays the site's URL in the address bar but causes Internet Explorer to report that the certificate is invalid.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 7.0

References

http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/11/ie7-website-security-certificate.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017165
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450722/100/0/threaded
http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/11/ie7-website-security-certificate.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017165
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450722/100/0/threaded

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