{"id":"CVE-2010-0555","aliases":["EUVD-2010-0586","GHSA-mh3v-wwhj-j4pq"],"status":"published","title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not prevent rendering of non-HTML...","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.","severity":{"version":"2.0","score":9.3,"vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.20789,"percentile":0.97558,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"published":"2010-02-04T20:00:00Z","modified":"2026-06-16T23:16:23Z","products":[{"vendor":"microsoft","product":"internet_explorer"},{"vendor":"microsoft","product":"windows_2000"},{"vendor":"microsoft","product":"windows_server_2003"},{"vendor":"microsoft","product":"windows_server_2008"},{"vendor":"microsoft","product":"windows_vista"},{"vendor":"microsoft","product":"windows_xp"}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509345/100/0/threaded","tags":["mailing-list","x_refsource_BUGTRAQ","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/62157","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_OSVDB","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38055","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.coresecurity.com/content/internet-explorer-dynamic-object-tag","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Exploit"]},{"url":"http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Vendor Advisory"]},{"url":"http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2010/02/03/security-advisory-980088-released.aspx","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n\u0026storyid=8152","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38056","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0555"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mh3v-wwhj-j4pq"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2010-0555","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.","status":"published","published":"2010-02-04T20:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-07T00:52:19.446Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:33:29.582233Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2010-0586","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.","status":"published","published":"2010-02-04T20:00:00Z","modified":"2024-08-07T00:52:19Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T01:39:44.661513Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-mh3v-wwhj-j4pq","title":"Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not prevent rendering of non-HTML...","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.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-02T06:13:49Z","modified":"2023-02-01T05:00:35Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:49:33.904232Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2010-0555","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.","status":"published","published":"2010-02-04T20:15:25Z","modified":"2026-06-16T23:16:23.753Z","cvss":[{"version":"2.0","score":9.3,"vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:01:40.249593Z"}]}}