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.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 9.3/10
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CAffected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152
- http://osvdb.org/62157
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tagExploit
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspxVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152
- http://osvdb.org/62157
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tagExploit
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspxVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056
Timeline
- Published
- Feb 4, 2010
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified