CVE-2006-7030: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain malformed HTML, possibly involving applet and base tags without required arguments, which triggers a null pointer dereference in mshtml.dll.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only

Published 2007-02-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.