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CVE-2010-0255 Detail

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 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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://osvdb.org/62156 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag CVE, Microsoft Corporation Exploit 
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx CVE, Microsoft Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html CVE, Microsoft Corporation US Government Resource 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-035 CVE, Microsoft Corporation
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7145 CVE, Microsoft Corporation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-0255
NVD Published Date:
02/04/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Microsoft Corporation