CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-1991
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.
Affected configurations
• microsoft ie 8.0.7600.16385
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2900.2180
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 7.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/ Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/ Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com