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CVE-2006-3281

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 48.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-06-28 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

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://securitytracker.com/id?1016388
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/655100
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19389
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2553
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-045
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27456
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A318
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/047398.html

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