Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (cpu consumption) via a PNG image with crafted (1) Width and (2) Height values in the IHDR block.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-7210 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 44.06%, 98th percentile). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +6.66% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2210 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-08-18 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 2204 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-08-17 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 2194 | exploit_db | edb | 2006-08-16 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-04-07 | 37.40% | 44.06% | +6.66% |
| 2 | 2026-02-13 | 37.01% | 37.40% | +0.39% |
| 3 | 2025-12-28 | — | 37.01% | — |
Full EPSS history (28 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | 2.0 | MEDIUM |
|
10.0 | 2.9 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | windows_2000 | — | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | windows_2003_server | — | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | windows_xp | — | cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |