CVE-2005-3240

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
10.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 7% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: December 31, 2005 (7439 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly execute code by tricking a user into performing a drag-and-drop action from certain objects, such as file objects within a folder view, then predicting the drag action, and re-focusing to a malicious window.

CWE

CWE-362

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securiteam.com