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    CVE-2010-0555

    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 the product's use of text/html as the default content type for files that are encountered after a redirection, aka the URLMON sniffing vulnerability, 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:0.26352
    CVSS Score:9.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Internet Explorer
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows 2000
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows Server 2003
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows Server 2008
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows Vista
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows Xp

    Exploits

    http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-taghttp://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    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/62157
    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://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/62157
    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

    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