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CVE-2010-0492
Use-after-free vulnerability in mstime.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors…
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 27.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in mstime.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the TIME2 behavior, the CTimeAction object, and destruction of markup, leading to memory corruption, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.5% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References9
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7722 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA10-089A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-033 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- TA10-068A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- MS10-018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20100402 ZDI-10-033: Microsoft Internet Explorer TIME2 Behavior Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 39030 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0744 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1023773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0523 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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