Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3298

Title: Yahoo Messenger Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-3298

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Jun 29, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.94%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3298: Yahoo! Messenger 7.5.0.814 and 7.0.438 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages that contain non-ASCII characters, which triggers the crash in jscript.dll.

Impacted Vendors

yahoo 1

relatedcode 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/20773 http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews281.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27319 http://secunia.com/advisories/20773 http://www.security.nnov.ru/Gnews281.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18622 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27319

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3298 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28099

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 29, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.