CVE-2006-3659: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by setting the location or URL property of a MHTMLFile ActiveX object.

Affected products

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

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