CVE-2006-0830

Published Feb 21, 2006

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description: The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0.2900:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "7B90EA4B-DA10-44B7-BD3D-6AE1197212D5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References