CVE-2006-3471 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a table with a frameset as a child, which triggers a null dereference, as demonstrated using the appendChild method.

Published: 2006-07-10

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 44.9% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0::windowsxp:::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1:windows_xp:::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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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 None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.4494.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-7-tableframeset.html
http://www.osvdb.org/26837
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18873
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2701
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27592

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Ie

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-07-10T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:30:33.688Z

Reserved: 2006-07-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-3471

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-07-10T19:05:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-3471

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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