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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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2010-02-04T19:00:00

Updated: 2018-10-12T19:57:01

Reserved: 2010-01-07T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2010-0255

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-02-04T20:15:49.967

Modified: 2023-12-07T18:38:56.693


Link: CVE-2010-0255

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