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CVE-2005-4269

mshtml.dll in Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, and Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation) by causing mshtml.dll to process button-focus events at the same time that a document is reloading, as seen in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 by repeatedly clicking the "Delete" button in a repeating section in a form. NOTE: the normal operation of InfoPath appears to involve a local user without any privilege boundaries, so this might not be a vulnerability in InfoPath. If no realistic scenarios exist for this problem in other products, then perhaps it should be excluded from CVE.

Published: Dec 15, 2005 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (3)

Vendor Product Version
microsoft ie 6.0
microsoft windows_2003_server r2
microsoft windows_xp *

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-2h2m-3wv3-pqw4

mshtml.dll in Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, and Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows attackers...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.8 / 10
EPSS Score 4.94%

Top 9% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 32.7 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub