CVE-2006-5913
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to (1) cause a security certificate from a secure web site to appear invalid via a…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 5.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to (1) cause a security certificate from a secure web site to appear invalid via a link to res://ieframe.dll/sslnavcancel.htm with the target site in the anchor identifier, which displays the site's URL in the address bar but causes Internet Explorer to report that the certificate is invalid, or (2) trigger a "The webpage no longer exists" report via a link to res://ieframe.dll/http_410.htm, a variant of CVE-2006-5805.
Timeline
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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 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References2
- 20061107 Re: IE7 website security certificate discrediting exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=15069726&postID=116257593427394541 (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-2006-5896 (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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