PT-2010-3612 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2010-05-20 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2010-1991

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by launching excessive applications via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements, specifically when an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.2900.2180, consider disabling the handling of mailto: URLs in IFRAME elements until a patch is available. For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7, restrict access to IFRAME elements with mailto: URLs to minimize the risk of exploitation. For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 8.0.7600.16385, avoid using the SRC attribute with mailto: URLs in IFRAME elements until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-1991

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 3

• 🔥 http://websecurity.com.ua/4206 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1991 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded · Note