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CVE-2005-0553

Race condition in the memory management routines in the DHTML object processor in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious web page or HTML e-mail, aka "DHTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Published: May 2, 2005 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (5)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft ie 6.0
microsoft internet_explorer 5.01
microsoft internet_explorer 5.01
microsoft internet_explorer 5.5
microsoft internet_explorer 6.0

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-7w2g-mcx4-m9r4

Race condition in the memory management routines in the DHTML object processor in Microsoft...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 5.1 / 10
EPSS Score 50.60%

Top 1% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 35.6 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub