VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-0830
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability14.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-02-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.