PT-2010-5140 · Microsoft · Mshtml.Dll+1

Published 2010-10-08 · Updated 2022-02-18 · CVE-2010-3886

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the heap memory addresses used by an application. This is due to the CTimeoutEventList::InsertIntoTimeoutList function in Microsoft mshtml.dll using a certain pointer value as part of producing Timer ID values for the setTimeout and setInterval methods in VBScript and JScript.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-3886

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Mshtml.Dll

References · 6

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-06/0259.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/14295 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3886 · Security Note
• http://eeye.com/Resources/Security-Center/Research/Zero-Day-Tracker/2010/20100630 · Note
• http://twitter.com/WisecWisec/statuses/17254776077 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11606 · Note