CVE-2006-7030

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed HTML, possibly involving applet and base tags without required arguments, which triggers a null pointer dereference in mshtml.dll.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp2

References

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2286
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435095/30/4710/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435129/30/4710/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18112
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26808
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2286
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435095/30/4710/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435129/30/4710/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18112
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26808

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