CVE-2010-1117

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 8 on Microsoft Windows 7 allows remote attackers to discover the base address of a Windows .dll file, and possibly have unspecified other impact, via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Peter Vreugdenhil during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2010.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 8.0.6001

References

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11003801960
http://vreugdenhilresearch.nl/Pwn2Own-2010-Windows7-InternetExplorer8.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57196
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20001126-245.html
http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/11003801960
http://vreugdenhilresearch.nl/Pwn2Own-2010-Windows7-InternetExplorer8.pdf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/57196

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