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CVE-2006-7066

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.1)—💥 Exploit

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Microsoft — Internet Explorer

CWEs

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