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CVE-2010-1127

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2010-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not initialize certain data structures during execution of the createElement method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by setting the (1) outerHTML or (2) value property of an object returned by createElement.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0, 6.00.2462.0000, 6.00.2479.0006, 6.0.2600, 6.00.2600.0000, 6.0.2800 (+20)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0237.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0278.html
• http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/7731
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0237.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-01/0278.html
• http://securityreason.com/exploitalert/7731

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