Is CVE-2006-5162 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2006-5162 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2006-5162?

CVE-2006-5162 has a CVSS v2 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2006-5162?

CVE-2006-5162 has an EPSS score of 35.36% (98th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2006-5162

MEDIUMEPSS 98th pctl

5.0

CVSS v2

NVD

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.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

35.36%probability of exploitation in 30 days

98thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.

References

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

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.