CVE-2006-6659 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office Outlook Recipient ActiveX control (ole32.dll) on Windows XP SP2, which can cause Internet Explorer 7 to hang. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be triggered remotely without authentication via crafted HTML. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:7.0:*:vista:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp2:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.