5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.142 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.8%
Internet Explorer is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.902151");
script_version("2024-02-19T05:05:57+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-19 05:05:57 +0000 (Mon, 19 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-03-30 16:15:33 +0200 (Tue, 30 Mar 2010)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-1127");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_name("Microsoft Internet Explorer Denial of Service Vulnerability (Mar 2010)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_ms_ie_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("MS/IE/Version");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause a denial
of service.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.x and 7.x.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to error in createElement method which does not
initialize certain data structures during execution when processing crafted
JavaScript code.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure
of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer
release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Internet Explorer is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"WillNotFix");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/7731");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0237.html");
exit(0);
}
ieVer = get_kb_item("MS/IE/Version");
if(!ieVer){
exit(0);
}
if(ieVer =~ "^[6|7]\."){
security_message( port: 0, data: "The target host was found to be vulnerable" );
}