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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3281

Original release date:06/28/2006

Last revised:09/10/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.1 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 4.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: High

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-220A

Name: TA06-220A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#655100

Name: VU#655100

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/655100

External Source: XF

Name: ie-hta-fileshare-command-execution(27456)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27456

External Source: BID

Name: 19389

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19389