CVE-2009-0072: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 9.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 8.0 beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an onload=screen[""] attribute value in a BODY element.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only; version 8 only

Published 2009-01-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.