CVE-2006-3658: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by accessing the object references of a FolderItem ActiveX object, which triggers a null dereference in the security check.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only

Published 2006-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.