What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-0244

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 20.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, leading to memory corruption, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2530 and CVE-2009-2531.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 8, 8.0.6001, 7, 7.0, 7.0.5730-unknown, 7.0.5730.11 (+21)

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55774
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8186
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-002
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55774
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8186

Get alerted when CVE-2010-0244 or the next vulnerability affects your stack