CVE-2005-3312

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-10-26 10:02:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 03:34:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

20051022 phpBB 2.0.17 (and other BB systems as well) Cookie disclosure

18

http://www.computec.ch/download.php?view.683

Exploit

http://www.scip.ch/cgi-bin/smss/showadvf.pl?id=1746

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/6F00B00EBY.html

Vendor Advisory

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