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CVE-2005-3240

N/A

Published: February 14, 2006 at 11:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorInternet ExplorerIe

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 6%

Description

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly execute code by tricking a user into performing a drag-and-drop action from certain objects, such as file objects within a folder view, then predicting the drag action, and re-focusing to a malicious window.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ie · Microsoft

95%

Internet Explorer · Microsoft

95%

5.01 5.01 sp1 5.01 sp2 5.01 sp3 5.01 sp4 5.5 5.5 sp1 5.5 sp2 6.0 6.0 sp1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (10)

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/02/13/419439.aspx

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/18787

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015049

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://www.osvdb.org/2707

x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5MP0B0UHPA.html

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424863/100/0/threaded

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/424940/100/0/threaded

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16352

CVSS

5.1MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-362

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