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.
Published:Feb 4, 2010
Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
EPS:Feb 4, 2010
EPSS Score:0.58108
CVSS Score:4.3
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Internet Explorer
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows 2000
Microsoft
Windows 2000
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows 2003 Server
Microsoft
Windows 2003 Server
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows 7
Microsoft
Windows 7
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows Server 2003
Microsoft
Windows Server 2003
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows Server 2008
Microsoft
Windows Server 2008
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows Vista
Microsoft
Windows Vista
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Windows Xp
Microsoft
Windows Xp
Exploits
Common Weakness Enumeration
No CWE recorded yet
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
No CAPEC recorded yet
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
