CVE-2010-0555

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 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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx

http://osvdb.org/62157

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-02-04

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.20789