CVE-2005-3240
Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows user-assisted attackers to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly execute code by…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 5.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 20060213 Internet Explorer drag&drop 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2006-0553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 18787 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20060214 Advisory: Internet Explorer Drag and Drop Redeux [CVE-2005-3240] (fwd) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/5MP0B0UHPA.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 16352 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ie-dragdrop-variant(24648) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1015049 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 2707 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/02/13/419439.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-3239 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-3240)Record last updated .