CVE-2006-2538

medium

Description

IE Tab 1.0.9 plugin for Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), possibly due to a null dereference, via certain Javascript, as demonstrated using a url parameter to the content/reloaded.html page in a chrome:// URI. Some third-party researchers claim that they are unable to reproduce this vulnerability.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26540

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434519/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434280/100/0/threaded

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-05-22

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

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

Severity: Low

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: 0.00711