CVE-2010-1127

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Published 2010-03-26 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not initialize certain data structures during execution of the createElement method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by setting the (1) outerHTML or (2) value property of an object returned by createElement.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.0`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.2462.0000`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.2479.0006`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.0.2600`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.2600.0000`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.0.2800`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.0.2800.1106`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.2800.1106`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.0.2900`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.0.2900.2180`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.2900.2180`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.3663.0000`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.3718.0000`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.3790.0000`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.3790.1830`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`6.00.3790.3959`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7.0`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7.0.5730`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7.0.5730.11`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7.00.5730.1100`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7.00.6000.16386`
microsoft	internet_explorer	`7.00.6000.16441`

References

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

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