Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2010-0255
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not prevent rendering of non-HTML local files as HTML documents, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and read arbitrary files via vectors involving JavaScript exploit code that constructs a reference to a file://127.0.0.1 URL, aka the dynamic OBJECT tag vulnerability, as demonstrated by obtaining the data from an index.dat file, a variant of CVE-2009-1140 and related to CVE-2008-1448.
EPSS: 0.370 (98.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 8, 6, 7
- Microsoft Windows_2000
- Microsoft Windows_2003_server
- Microsoft Windows_7
- Microsoft Windows_server_2003
- Microsoft Windows_server_2008 — versions r2
- Microsoft Windows_vista — versions gold
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secure@microsoft.com (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)