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CVE-2006-3281

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.1 Published: 2006-06-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References