CVE-2010-0555

Published Feb 4, 2010 CVSS 2.0 · 9.3 Critical EPSS 20.8% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 12:52 AM
Reserved
Feb 4, 2010, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 4, 2010, 8:15 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:16 PM