CVE-2006-3898

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

27/07/2006

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the Click method of the Internet.HHCtrl.1 ActiveX object before initializing the URL, which triggers a null dereference.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:sp1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:sp2::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2006-3898

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools