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CVE-2010-1118
Unspecified vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 on Microsoft Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 22.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8 on Microsoft Windows 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, possibly related to a use-after-free issue, as demonstrated by Peter Vreugdenhil during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 22.3% · top 2.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11003801960 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ie-unspecified-code-exec(57197) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://vreugdenhilresearch.nl/Pwn2Own-2010-Windows7-InternetExplorer8.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2010-1149 (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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