CVE-2006-3898: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 24.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the Click method of the Internet.HHCtrl.1 ActiveX object before initializing the URL, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.