CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0255
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-02-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 5.01
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152 isc.sans.org
- http://osvdb.org/62156 osvdb.org
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747 support.avaya.com
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag Exploit
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-035 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7145 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx blogs.technet.com
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152 isc.sans.org
- http://osvdb.org/62156 osvdb.org
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747 support.avaya.com
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag Exploit
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html US Government Resource
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-035 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7145 oval.cisecurity.org