CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2006-6252
MEDIUMEPSS 95th pctl4.3
CVSS v2
Description
Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 8.0 and earlier, when gestual emoticons are enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string composed of ":D" sequences, which are interpreted as emoticons.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
10.57%probability of exploitation in 30 days
95thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
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