CVE-2006-0020
An unspecified Microsoft WMF parsing application, as used in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4, and 5.5 SP2 on Windows…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 19.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An unspecified Microsoft WMF parsing application, as used in Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 on Windows 2000 SP4, and 5.5 SP2 on Windows Millennium, and possibly other versions, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute code via a crafted WMF file with a manipulated WMF header size, possibly involving an integer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-4560, and aka "WMF Image Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 19.1% · top 2.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1638 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 22976 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 18912 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [funsec] 20060110 Another WMF flaw without a Microsoft patch (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 18729 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/913333.mspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#312956 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0469 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA06-045A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 16516 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS06-004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0028 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0020)Record last updated .