{
    "id": "CVE-2005-4717",
    "published": "2005-12-31 05:00:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:19:18",
    "cvss_score": "5.0",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P",
    "cwe": null,
    "description": "Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a certain combination of a malformed HTML file and a CSS file that triggers a null dereference, probably related to rendering of a DIV element that contains a malformed IMG tag, as demonstrated by IEcrash.htm and IEcrash.rar.",
    "epss_score": "0.16325",
    "epss_percentile": "0.96858",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27 18:17:05",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "ie"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "internet_explorer"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "windows_2000"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "windows_2003_server"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "windows_nt"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "windows_xp"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "26457",
            "title": "Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Malformed HTML Parsing Denial of Service (1)",
            "date": "2005-11-01",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26457"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html",
        "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15268",
        "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html",
        "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15268"
    ]
}