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CVE-2003-1505

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2003-1505 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, where a specially crafted web page or HTML email can cause the browser to crash. This occurs when a textarea within a div element, whose scrollbar-base-color is manipulated via CSS, is subsequently moved. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial denial of service, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a partial denial-of-service exploit is available on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
12.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-23273 · Oct 22, 2003
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1286 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

securityreason.com / securityalert/3295
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/13809
securityfocus.com / archive/1/342010
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/8874
Exploit