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CVE-2005-1791

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 (6.0.2900.2180) crashes when the user attempts to add a URI to the restricted zone, in which the full…

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 (6.0.2900.2180) crashes when the user attempts to add a URI to the restricted zone, in which the full domain name of the URI begins with numeric sequences similar to an IP address. NOTE: if there is not an exploit scenario in which an attacker can trigger this behavior, then perhaps this issue should not be included in CVE.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By mitre

  2. Published

  3. · 19 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2005-1791, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified2.0Low2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
3.8% · top 9.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.6.

Affected products

  • n/a

    • affected n/a

References

2

Sources

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