CVE-2006-6252

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.112 · 96 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
11.2% (96th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
Is it mine?
2 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and earlier, when gestual emoticons are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string composed of ":D" sequences, which are interpreted as emoticons.

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cvss

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

4.3
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9
v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USLLM-inferred
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affected products (2)

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also known as (2)

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sources

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enisa_euvdnvdNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2006-12-04modified 2026-06-16
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references (4)

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