VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-0488

medium
Published 2010-03-31 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, and 7 does not properly handle unspecified "encoding strings," which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via a crafted web site, aka "Post Encoding Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
windows Windows Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
- Affected —
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.01

References

CWEs

CWE-200 CWE-732

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.