CVE-2004-2011: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

msxml3.dll in Internet Explorer 6.0.2600.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a single & (ampersand) in a <Ref href> link, which triggers a parsing error, possibly due to missing portions of the URI.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0.2600 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.