CVE-2012-6502

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-6502
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-01-22 15:55:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMicrosoft Internet Explorer before 10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the existence of files, and read certain data from files, via a UNC share pathname in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by reading a name-value pair from a local file via a \\127.0.0.1\C$\ sequence.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.6 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
High
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
None
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.5730 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 All All All
Application Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Microsoft Internet Explorer Domain Policy Bypass Vulnerability - Security Advisory - nsfocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.nsfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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