CVE-2008-2255: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 29.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 6 only; version 7 only

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