CVE-2005-3312

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
20.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: October 26, 2005 (7505 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.computec.ch 🔗 www.scip.ch 🔗 www.securiteam.com