CVE-2010-0255
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secure@microsoft.com
- Published
- 2010-02-04
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Affected products
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152
- http://osvdb.org/62156
- http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-035
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7145
