CVE-2005-2087

no score yetEPSS 61%

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 up to 6 on various Windows operating systems, including IE 6.0.2900.2180 on Windows XP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not ActiveX controls, as demonstrated using the JVIEW Profiler (Javaprxy.dll). NOTE: the researcher says that the vendor could not reproduce this problem.

EPSS: 61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2005-07-05
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:ie
microsoft:internet_explorer

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112006764714946&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15891
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014329
http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=5225
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/939605

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