CVE-2006-4494: Microsoft Visual Studio

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 22.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) and possibly execute arbitrary code by instantiating certain Visual Studio 6.0 ActiveX COM Objects in Internet Explorer, including (1) tcprops.dll, (2) fp30wec.dll, (3) mdt2db.dll, (4) mdt2qd.dll, and (5) vi30aut.dll.

Affected products

• Microsoft Visual Studio: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-08-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.