CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-3886
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-10-08
- 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-200
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-06/0259.html Broken Link, Exploit
- http://twitter.com/WisecWisec/statuses/17254776077 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2010/20100630 Not Applicable
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11606 Third Party Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-06/0259.html Broken Link, Exploit
- http://twitter.com/WisecWisec/statuses/17254776077 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2010/20100630 Not Applicable
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11606 Third Party Advisory