CVE-2006-7066 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and earlier versions on Windows XP SP2, and later confirmed for IE 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier. Remote attackers can trigger a browser crash via a NULL pointer dereference by manipulating objects within an iframe and then deleting the frame. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.1, indicating a high severity with a complete impact on availability, requiring medium attack complexity and no authentication. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and showing no social media or media coverage, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.