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CVE-2006-2382
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 48.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML that results in size discrepancies during conversion to Unicode, aka "HTML Decoding Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 29 days later
· 29 days 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 48.6% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References17
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1931 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20595 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-2319 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1016291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1621 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA06-164A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- VU#136849 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-017.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1862 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1906 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 26443 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20060613 ZDI-06-017: Microsoft Internet Explorer UTF-8 Decoding Heap Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ie-utf8-html-execute-code(26766) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 18309 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS06-021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1414 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1752 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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-2006-2383 (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-2006-2382)Record last updated .