CVE-2010-0255 Information

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 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.

Reference

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/62156 http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747 http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-035 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7145