CVE-2006-7066
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 22.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Deleted Frame Object Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28301dos, windowspublished 29 Jul 2006Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.2% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- 20090725 DoS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3130/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 19228 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-orphan-object-properties.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ie-deleted-frame-dos(28068) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 27533 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554 (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-2006-7048 (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-2006-7066)Record last updated .