CVE-2006-3298

Exp

Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII characters, which triggers the crash in jscript.dll.

Published: 2006-06-29 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-3298 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.91%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-3298

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
28099 exploit_db edb 2006-06-23 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-3298

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 5.00% 4.91% -0.08%
2 2025-03-29 4.91% 5.00% +0.08%
3 2025-03-17 — 4.91% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-3298

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-3298

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-3298

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
yahoo messenger 7.0.438 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:7.0.438:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
yahoo messenger 7.5.0.814 cpe:2.3:a:yahoo:messenger:7.5.0.814:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-3298

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