Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2005-3312
The HTML rendering engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML in corrupted images and other files such as .GIF, JPG, and WAV, which is rendered as HTML when the user clicks on the link, even though the web server response and file extension indicate that it should be treated as a different file type.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.119 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.119 · newest: 0.119 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6.0
References
- www.scip.ch/cgi-bin/smss/showadvf.pl (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/6F00B00EBY.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.computec.ch/download.php (Exploit)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/18 (third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)