CVE-2010-0255

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium

CVSS4.3

Exploit probability—

Product

Microsoft Internet Explorer

PublishedFeb 4, 2010

First seenFeb 4, 2010

How to fix

Vendor advisories

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-035

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
microsoft internet_explorer	6, 7, 5.01, 8	—

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