Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2010-0555
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 the product's use of text/html as the default content type for files that are encountered after a redirection, aka the URLMON sniffing vulnerability, a variant of CVE-2009-1140 and related to CVE-2008-1448.
EPSS: 0.209 (97.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6, 7, 5.01
- Microsoft Windows_2000
- Microsoft Windows_server_2003
- Microsoft Windows_server_2008
- Microsoft Windows_vista — versions gold
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2010-0555?
- CVE-2010-0555 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Published 2010-02-04.
- Is CVE-2010-0555 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.