National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0255

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-159B

Name: TA10-159B

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html

External Source: BID

Name: 38056

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056

External Source: BID

Name: 38055

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100203 CORE-2009-0625: Internet Explorer Dynamic OBJECT tag and URLMON sniffing vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded

External Source: MS

Name: MS10-035

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-035.mspx

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag

Hyperlink:http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100089747

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7145

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7145

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 62156

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/62156

External Source: MISC

Name: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152

Hyperlink:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7145

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7145