CVE-2005-3312

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Published Oct 26, 2005 CVSS 2.0 · 4.3 Medium EPSS 11.9% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

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Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 11.9% (11.886% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113017003617987&w=2
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/18
http://www.computec.ch/download.php?view.683
http://www.scip.ch/cgi-bin/smss/showadvf.pl?id=1746
http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/6F00B00EBY.html

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 11:10 PM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Oct 26, 2005, 4:00 AM
Updated: Aug 7, 2024, 11:10 PM
Reserved: Oct 26, 2005, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 16, 2026, 10:16 PM

Status: Modified
Published: Oct 26, 2005, 10:02 AM
Modified: Jun 16, 2026, 10:16 PM

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