$ cve CVE-2006-3281 JSON

CVE-2006-3281 EXPLOIT

5.1

MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 48.2% (pctl 99)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

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.

Scoring

CVSS	5.1 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS	48.22% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-20
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2006-06-28
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
microsoft	internet explorer

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003 - Explorer Drag and Drop Remote Code Execution	2006-07-27

References

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