CVE-2004-1686 — Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin

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Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin

Published Feb 20, 2005

5.0

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 10.27%

Description

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

10.27% 0.10266

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.10266

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (14 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	10.27% (0.10266)	95.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	10.27% (0.10266)	95.08th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	10.70% (0.10697)	92.64th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	9.02% (0.09021)	87.57th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 19, 2025	10.70% (0.10697)	92.38th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	8.88% (0.08882)	91.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.32% (0.00316)	71.21th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.32% (0.00316)	69.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jan 28, 2024	0.32% (0.00316)	67.30th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 12, 2023	0.69% (0.00685)	77.22th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.57% (0.00572)	74.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	11.68% (0.11676)	95.15th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	11.68% (0.11676)	94.76th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	11.68% (0.11676)	88.93th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109539520310153&w=2
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11200
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20617
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109539520310153&w=2		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11200		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/20617		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 20, 2005

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Feb 21, 2005

Link CVE-2004-1686

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2004-1686

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2004-1686