CVE-2012-6502

Published Jan 22, 2013

Last updated 3 months ago

Overview

Description
Microsoft 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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
2.6
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
4.9
Vector string
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-200

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Evaluator

Comment
Per: http://www.nsfocus.com/en/2012/advisories_1228/119.html 'Internet Explorer version 6 through 9 are affected..'
Impact
CVSS score based on update to http://www.nsfocus.com/en/2012/advisories_1228/119.html: "An attacker would not be able to discover information or files on a system that they do not already know the name and file path. They have to guess the path and name. "
Solution
CVSS score based on update to http://www.nsfocus.com/en/2012/advisories_1228/119.html: "An attacker would not be able to discover information or files on a system that they do not already know the name and file path. They have to guess the path and name. "

Configurations