CVE detail
CVE-2010-0555 — CVE-2010-0555
Published 2010-02-04 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor microsoft · Product internet_explorer · Source nvd
UNKNOWN
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.2095
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
97.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References