Information disclosure in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2010-3886
The CTimeoutEventList::InsertIntoTimeoutList function in Microsoft mshtml.dll uses a certain pointer value as part of producing Timer ID values for the setTimeout and setInterval methods in VBScript and JScript, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the heap memory addresses used by an application, as demonstrated by the Internet Explorer 8 application.
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
EPSS: 0.168 (96.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 8
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Not Applicable)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)