# CVE-2006-3200: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer by tricking users into visiting a page with a malformed File:// URI in an IFRAME.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Jun 2006
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-93g8-jxg6-4j2g

## What is CVE-2006-3200?

CVE-2006-3200 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 23 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Unspecified versions of Internet Explorer allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IFRAME with a src tag containing a "File://" URI followed by an 8-bit character.  NOTE: some third parties were unable to verify this issue.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3200?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Microsoft Internet Explorer.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-3200?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3200 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-3200 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3200 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer

- [CVE-2014-1776](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-1776/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-27085](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-27085/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-0222](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-0222/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-0210](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-0210/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-0149](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-0149/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-3200 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-3200 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 23 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3200 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Microsoft Internet Explorer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3200/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3200/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3200
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3200
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-3200

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3200/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.