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CVE-2010-0255

medium · 4.3

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.

4.3
CVSS
37.0%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2010-02-04
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorer6
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftinternet_explorer7
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2003all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions
microsoftwindows_vistaall versions
microsoftwindows_vistagold
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftwindows_xpall versions
microsoftinternet_explorer5.01
microsoftinternet_explorer6
microsoftwindows_2000all versions
microsoftinternet_explorer8
microsoftwindows_2003_serverall versions
microsoftwindows_2003_serverall versions
microsoftwindows_2003_serverall versions
microsoftwindows_7all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions
microsoftwindows_server_2008all versions

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References

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