CVE-2006-0830 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2006-02-21

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 21.8% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0.2900:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.21752.

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425283/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425378/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16687
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24788

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Internet Explorer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-02-21T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:48:56.515Z

Reserved: 2006-02-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-0830

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-02-21T23:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-0830

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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