Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.581
EPSS Ranking 98.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
Products affected by CVE-2010-0255
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:7
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cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:8
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:*
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2003:r2
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:*
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:r2
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_server_2008:sp2
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista:gold
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:-
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cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:unknown