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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

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Updated: 2024-08-07T00:45:11.220Z

Reserved: 2010-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-0255

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2010-02-04T20:15:49.967

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2010-0255

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