CVE-2006-3451

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 41.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 SP4 and 6 do not properly garbage collect when "multiple imports are used on a styleSheets collection" to construct a chain of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 5.0-sp4, 6-windows_server_2003_sp1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21396
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1343
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016663
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/262004
http://www.osvdb.org/27854
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442578/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19316
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3212
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-026.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5

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