CVE-2006-3643: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 6.0. EPSS: 20.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only

Published 2006-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.