CVE-2006-1016
Buffer overflow in the IsComponentInstalled method in Internet Explorer 6.0, when used on Windows 2000 before SP4 or Windows XP before…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 67.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in the IsComponentInstalled method in Internet Explorer 6.0, when used on Windows 2000 before SP4 or Windows XP before SP1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via JavaScript that calls IsComponentInstalled with a long first argument.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Microsoft Internet Explorer isComponentInstalled Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/ie_iscomponentinstalledRank normaldisclosed 24 Feb 2006
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Internet Explorer - isComponentInstalled Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16549remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
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Timeline
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By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 67.0% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 16870 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ie-iscomponentinstalled-bo(24923) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/exploits.html#ie_iscomponentinstalled (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/modules/exploits/ie_iscomponentinstalled.pm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2006-1020 (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-2006-1016)Record last updated .