Vulnerability Details : CVE-2006-3451

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 SP4 and 6 do not properly garbage collect when "multiple imports are used on a styleSheets collection" to construct a chain of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability category: Input validationExecute code

Published 2006-08-08 23:04:00

Updated 2018-10-18 16:47:37

Source Microsoft Corporation

View at NVD, CVE.org

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-3451

Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days: 72.03%

Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less: ~ 98 % EPSS Score History EPSS FAQ

CVSS scores for CVE-2006-3451

Base Score	Base Severity	CVSS Vector	Exploitability Score	Impact Score	Source
7.5	HIGH	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P	10.0	6.4	nvd@nist.gov
Access Vector: Network Access Complexity: Low Authentication: None Confidentiality Impact: Partial Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: Partial

CWE ids for CVE-2006-3451

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2006-3451

Products affected by CVE-2006-3451

Microsoft » IE » Version: 6 Update Windows Server 2003 Sp1
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6:windows_server_2003_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Matching versions
Microsoft » IE » Version: 5.0 Update SP4
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:5.0:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
Matching versions