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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.369 (98.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.370 · newest: 0.369 · change: -0.001
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx
- isc.sans.org/diary.html
- osvdb.org/62156 (vdb-entry)
- support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747
- www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag (Exploit)
- www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)