CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-0555

9.3 HIGH Published 2010-02-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-02-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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 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.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 6 • microsoft windows server 2003 • microsoft windows xp • microsoft internet explorer 7 • microsoft windows server 2008 • microsoft windows vista • microsoft windows vista gold • microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft windows 2000

References