CVE-2006-7030

medium

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26808

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18112

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435129/30/4710/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435095/30/4710/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2286

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-02-23

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

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: 0.16464