CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-6502

2.6 LOW Published 2013-01-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-01-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer before 10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the existence of files, and read certain data from files, via a UNC share pathname in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by reading a name-value pair from a local file via a \\127.0.0.1\C$\ sequence.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 6 • microsoft internet explorer 7 • microsoft internet explorer 7.0.5730 • microsoft internet explorer 8 • microsoft internet explorer 9

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References