CVE-2006-3281

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
62.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: June 28, 2006 (7259 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 does not properly handle Drag and Drop events, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a link to an SMB file share with a filename that contains encoded ..\ (%2e%2e%5c) sequences and whose extension contains the CLSID Key identifier for HTML Applications (HTA), aka "Folder GUID Code Execution Vulnerability." NOTE: directory traversal sequences were used in the original exploit, although their role is not clear.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 lists.grok.org.uk 🔗 lists.grok.org.uk 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org