EIP-2026-115698

PRE-CVE

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - 'mshtmled.dll' Denial of Service

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-115698. PoCs published by Tom Ferris.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 by triggering a null pointer dereference in mshtmled.dll. The PoC requires the J2SE Runtime Environment to be installed and uses malformed HTML tags to crash the browser.

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - 'mshtmled.dll' Denial of Service

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Tom Ferris · htmldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1276

This exploit demonstrates a denial-of-service vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 by triggering a null pointer dereference in mshtmled.dll. The PoC requires the J2SE Runtime Environment to be installed and uses malformed HTML tags to crash the browser.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2
No auth needed
Prerequisites: J2SE Runtime Environment installed · Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026