CVE-2006-2766

lowpriority · track · 37EPSS 0.479 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

47.9% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 2.6 · low

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Buffer overflow in INETCOMM.DLL, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 6.0 SP2, Windows Explorer, Outlook Express 6, and possibly other programs, allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long mhtml URI in the URL value in a URL file.

cvss

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

2.6

010

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

v2.02.6lowAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 4.9 · impact 2.9

v2.02.6lowAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-27930Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003 - MHTML URI Buffer Overflow (PoC)functional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft ie= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft internet explorer= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2006-06-02modified 2026-06-16

references (26)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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