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CVE-2010-0555

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Published: Feb 4, 2010Modified: Apr 29, 2026

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9.3
Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Exploitability: 8.6 / Impact: 10.0
Source: NVD

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.

Affected (23)

6 products
Internet Explorer
Windows Xp
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista
Windows 2000
Configuration A
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 6
Microsoft
All versions
All versions
Configuration B
17 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Version 7
Microsoft
All versions
All versions
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Microsoft
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Microsoft
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Version gold
Microsoft
All versions
All versions
All versions
All versions
Configuration C
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Microsoft
Version 5.01 sp4
Version 6 sp1
All versions

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