THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-3643
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-3643

Ie vulnerability

CVSS
6.0
EPSS
20.5%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6 in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 permits access to local "HTML-embedded resource files" in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) library, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands, aka "MMC Redirect Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Ie
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2006-08-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 20.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-3643

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Ie is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-3643.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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