CVE-2004-2307: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2600 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a shell: URI with double backslashes (\\) in an HTML tag such as IFRAME or A.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0.2600 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

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