CVE-2012-6502

Published Jan 22, 2013

Last updated 11 years 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
Analyzed

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