CVE-2012-6502

low
Published 2013-01-22 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.6
VIR risk
2.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0.5730
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer9

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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