CVE-2010-0491

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
62.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: March 31, 2010 (5888 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, and 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by changing unspecified properties of an HTML object that has an onreadystatechange event handler, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorermicrosoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows server 2003microsoft windows xpmicrosoft windows 2000

References

🔗 labs.idefense.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.us-cert.gov 🔗 www.us-cert.gov