CVE-2012-6502

low Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
6.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 9% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: January 22, 2013 (4860 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer before 10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the existence of files, and read certain data from files, via a UNC share pathname in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by reading a name-value pair from a local file via a \\127.0.0.1\C$\ sequence.

CWE

CWE-200

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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