Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

CVE-2006-3351

Buffer overflow in Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) on Windows XP and 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .url file with an InternetShortcut tag containing a long URL and a large number of "file:" specifiers.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.069 (93.9th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2006-3351: held from 0.069 to 0.069.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.069 · newest: 0.069 · change: 0.000

Affected products

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