CVE-2010-1991

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-05-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 8.0.7600.16385
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0.2900.2180, 7, 7.0

References

http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded
http://websecurity.com.ua/4206/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511327/100/0/threaded

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