CVE-2010-1991

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
13.7%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 6% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: May 20, 2010 (5838 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 websecurity.com.ua 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 websecurity.com.ua 🔗 www.securityfocus.com