CVE-2008-2254: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 29.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only

Published 2008-08-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.