CVE-2005-3312: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The HTML rendering engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML in corrupted images and other files such as .GIF, JPG, and WAV, which is rendered as HTML when the user clicks on the link, even though the web server response and file extension indicate that it should be treated as a different file type.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

Published 2005-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.