CVE-2006-3545: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a web page with multiple empty APPLET start tags. NOTE: a third party has disputed this issue, stating that the crash does not occur with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta3

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7.0 only

Published 2006-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.