CVE-2006-3910

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—Exploit

Severity5Medium · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability17 %higher than 97% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2, when Outlook is installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling the NewDefaultItem function of an OVCtl (OVCtl.OVCtl.1) ActiveX object, which triggers a null dereference.

CVSS

Base score: 5
Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 17 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 97
Score date: 10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - OVCtl Denial of Service (7/19/2006)

Affected technologies (1)

Microsoft — IE

CWEs

NVD-CWE-Other

References

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