CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-0830

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-02-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-02-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2900

References