Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, and 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, and 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by changing unspecified properties of an HTML object that has an onreadystatechange event handler, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

29.3% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8421 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 39027 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• TA10-089A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• TA10-068A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• MS10-018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• 20100330 Microsoft Internet Explorer 'onreadystatechange' Use After Free Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
• ADV-2010-0744 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1023773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 00:52 UTC.