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$\ sequence.
Published: 2013-01-22
Score: 2.6 Low
EPSS: 6.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-6352 Microsoft Internet Explorer before 10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the existence of files, and read certain data from files, via a UNC share pathname in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by reading a name-value pair from a local file via a \\127.0.0.1\C$\ sequence.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:32:50.344Z

Reserved: 2013-01-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-6502

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-01-22T15:55:02.980

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-6502

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