CVE-2006-1719
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedInternet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via any scrollbar Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) property.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceInternet Explorer 6 contains a vulnerability where specially crafted scrollbar Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) properties can cause the browser to crash, resulting in a denial of service. The attack is triggered remotely via web pages containing malformed scrollbar CSS declarations.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data= 6CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Partial
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Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Internet Explorer installationCheck for IE6 presence: On Windows, look in C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe or check Add/Remove Programs for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. On legacy systems, the executable properties will show version 6.0.xxxx.Affected if Internet Explorer version 6.0.xxxx is installed on the system
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Confirm exact version numberLaunch iexplore.exe, go to Help > About Internet Explorer. The version must be exactly 6.0 (no higher version numbers) to be affected by this specific CVE.Affected if Version displayed is 6.0.xxxx (any subversion of IE6)
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Determine if scrollbar CSS is processedThe vulnerability triggers when IE6 renders web pages containing scrollbar CSS properties (such as scrollbar-face-color, scrollbar-track-color, etc.). Check if the browser can access or has historically accessed web content.Affected if IE6 is capable of rendering web pages with CSS stylesheets, which is the default behavior when the browser is used for web browsing
If Internet Explorer version 6.0 is installed and functional for web browsing, the environment is affected by this CVE.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataSince Internet Explorer 6 is obsolete and no longer supported, the primary remediation is to migrate to a modern, supported web browser. Organizations with legacy systems requiring IE6 should implement browser virtualization or isolation solutions.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2006-1719 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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