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CVE-2006-2538

12
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-2538 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the IE Tab 1.0.9 plugin for Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3. A remote, user-assisted attacker could crash the application, potentially via a null dereference, by crafting specific JavaScript within a URL parameter to the content/reloaded.html page. This vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network attack vector with high attack complexity and only a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and some researchers have been unable to reproduce it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ie_tab:ie_tab:1.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:1.5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.6LOW

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0189 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 1,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/26540
securityfocus.com / archive/1/434280/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/434519/100/0/threaded