CVE-2010-0555

CVE-2010-0555 affects Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8. The root cause is URLMON sniffing that allows rendering of non-HTML local files as HTML documents after a redirect, bypassing access restrictions and enabling read of arbitrary files. The description identifies this a...

CVE-2010-0555: Undefined Security Weakness

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...