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CVE-2010-2442
Microsoft Internet Explorer, possibly 8, does not properly restrict focus changes, which allows remote attackers to read keystrokes via…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 11.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer, possibly 8, does not properly restrict focus changes, which allows remote attackers to read keystrokes via "cross-domain IFRAME gadgets."
Timeline
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By mitre
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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.6% · top 3.9% 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: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552255 (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-2010-2451 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-2442)Record last updated .