CVE-2006-3227

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

13.5%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Interpretation conflict between Internet Explorer and other web browsers such as Mozilla, Opera, and Firefox might allow remote attackers to modify the visual presentation of web pages and possibly bypass protection mechanisms such as content filters via ASCII characters with the 8th bit set, which could be stripped by Internet Explorer to render legible text, but not when using other browsers. NOTE: there has been significant discussion about this issue, and as of 20060625, it is not clear where the responsibility for this issue lies, although it might be due to vagueness within the associated standards. NOTE: this might only be exploitable with certain encodings.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published

2006-06-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 13.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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