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CVE-2006-3280

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 55.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-06-28 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to access restricted information from other domains via an object tag with a data parameter that references a link on the attacker's originating site that specifies a Location HTTP header that references the target site, which then makes that content available through the outerHTML attribute of the object, aka "Redirect Cross-Domain Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0

References

• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/047398.html
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20060627/3d930eda/PLEBO-2006.06.16-IE_ONE_MINOR_ONE_MAJOR.obj
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20825
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21396
• http://secunia.com/internet_explorer_information_disclosure_vulnerability_test
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016388
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/883108
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438785/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438788/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438811/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438863/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/438864/100/0/threaded

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