CVE-2005-4843: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 11.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SmartConnect Class control allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by creating a COM object of the class associated with the control's CLSID, which is not intended for use within Internet Explorer.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7.0 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.