CVE-2003-1048

highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.266 · 98 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

26.6% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

11 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Double free vulnerability in mshtml.dll for certain versions of Internet Explorer 6.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed GIF image.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-415USprimary

affected products (11)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft internet explorer= 5.01nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft outlook= 2000nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 98all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 98seall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_98se:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows meall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_me:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows nt= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_nt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows server 2003all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows xpall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2004-07-27modified 2026-06-16

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references (32)

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