CVE-2006-1190: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 61.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 does not always return the correct IOleClientSite information when dynamically creating an embedded object, which could cause Internet Explorer to run the object in the wrong security context or zone, and allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2006-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.