{
    "id": "CVE-2006-5162",
    "published": "2006-10-05 04:04:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:30:37",
    "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": "wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.",
    "epss_score": "0.35912",
    "epss_percentile": "0.98421",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-26 18:15:20",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "internet_explorer"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "2039",
            "title": "Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - 'Content-Type' Stack Overflow Crash",
            "date": "2006-07-20",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html",
        "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683",
        "http://www.osvdb.org/29129",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092",
        "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917",
        "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039",
        "http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html",
        "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683",
        "http://www.osvdb.org/29129",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092",
        "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917",
        "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900",
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039"
    ]
}