CVE-2010-0555

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
31.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 3% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: February 4, 2010 (5943 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorermicrosoft windows server 2003microsoft windows xpmicrosoft windows server 2008microsoft windows vistamicrosoft windows 2000

References

🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 isc.sans.org 🔗 osvdb.org 🔗 www.coresecurity.com 🔗 www.microsoft.com