CVE-2005-2087: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 61.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 up to 6 on various Windows operating systems, including IE 6.0.2900.2180 on Windows XP, 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, as demonstrated using the JVIEW Profiler (Javaprxy.dll). NOTE: the researcher says that the vendor could not reproduce this problem.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 5.1 only; version 5.2.3 only; version 6 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.1 only; version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.2900.2180 only

Published 2005-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.