CVE-2006-4301

Exp

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long Color attribute in multiple DirectX Media Image DirectX Transforms ActiveX COM Objects from (a) dxtmsft.dll and (b) dxtmsft3.dll, including (1) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.MaskFilter.1, (2) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma.1, and (3) DX3DTransform.Microsoft.Shapes.1.

Published: 2006-08-23 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-4301 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 39.38%, 97th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.66% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2006-4301

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
4251 exploit_db edb 2007-07-31 Exploit-DB ↗
28421 exploit_db edb 2006-08-21 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-4301

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 2026-03-07 37.71% 39.38% +1.66%
2 2025-08-06 45.64% 37.71% -7.93%
3 2025-06-03 — 45.64% —

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-4301

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-2006-4301

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-4301

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft ie 6.0 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-4301

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