CVE-2006-0830

medium

Description

The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24788

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16687

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425378/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425283/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-02-21

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.21752