CVE-2010-0255 Information disclosure in n/a
Remote attackers can read arbitrary local files by tricking users into visiting malicious pages that render local files as HTML.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2010-0255?
CVE-2010-0255 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 4 Feb 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0255?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.
How do I fix CVE-2010-0255?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-0255 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2010-0255 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-0255 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2017-0222 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-0210 Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-93vc-2h9g-v2wq.