CVE - CVE-2010-0555

CVE-ID
CVE-2010-0555	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:38055 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 BID:38056 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056 BUGTRAQ:20100203 CORE-2009-0625: Internet Explorer Dynamic OBJECT tag and URLMON sniffing vulnerabilities URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded MISC:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx MISC:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152 MISC:http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag MISC:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx OSVDB:62157 URL:~~http://osvdb.org/62157~~ (Obsolete source)
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20100204	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20100204)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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