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CVE-2005-1990

CVE-2005-1990

35Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 49%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 10
1st PoCAug 9
exploitation probability
49%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, including (1) devenum.dll, (2) diactfrm.dll, (3) wmm2filt.dll, (4) fsusd.dll, (5) dmdskmgr.dll, (6) browsewm.dll, (7) browseui.dll, (8) shell32.dll, (9) mshtml.dll, (10) inetcfg.dll, (11) infosoft.dll, (12) query.dll, (13) syncui.dll, (14) clbcatex.dll, (15) clbcatq.dll, (16) comsvcs.dll, and (17) msconf.dll, which causes memory corruption, aka "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2087.
Affected products
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