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high 7.6

CVE-2010-1117 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 8 on Microsoft Windows 7 allows remote attackers to discover the base address of a Windows…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-1148

cvss
7.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.3%
EPSS 14.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 8 on Microsoft Windows 7 allows remote attackers to discover the base address of a Windows .dll file, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Peter Vreugdenhil during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.

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Exploit prediction

14.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • vreugdenhilresearch.nl http://vreugdenhilresearch.nl/Pwn2Own-2010-Windows7-InternetExplorer8.pdf referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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