CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Microsoft. Its EPSS score suggests a 21.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2006-0544
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
21.72%
Microsoft
Original NVD Description
urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 (aka 7.0.5296.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a BGSOUND element with its SRC attribute set to "file://" followed by a large number of "-" (dash of hyphen) characters.