Vulnerability CVE-2010-0555
Published: 2010-02-04   Modified: 2012-02-13

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Internet Explorer Dynamic OBJECT tag and URLMON sniffing vulnerabilities
Core
07.02.2010

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 
Microsoft -> Windows 2000 
Microsoft -> Windows server 2003 
Microsoft -> Windows server 2008 
Microsoft -> Windows vista 
Microsoft -> Windows xp 

 References:
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=8152
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
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