VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3325

medium
Published 2010-10-13 · 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
5.3

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not properly handle unspecified special characters in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) documents, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a crafted web site, aka "CSS Special Character Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

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.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34602 dos windows verified
Chris Evans · 2010-09-06

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8 - CSS Handling Cross Domain Information Disclosure

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
windows Windows Fixed 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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