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 (8)
Core 8
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list
x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/62157
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055
Exploit x_refsource_misc
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056
Scores
EPSS
0.2095
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Details
Status
published
Products (9)
microsoft/internet_explorer
6 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/internet_explorer
7
microsoft/internet_explorer
5.01 sp4
microsoft/windows_2000
microsoft/windows_server_2003
(4 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_server_2008
(4 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_vista
(3 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_vista
gold
microsoft/windows_xp
(6 CPE variants)
Published
Feb 04, 2010
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026