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CVE-2012-6502

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6, 6-sp1, 7, 7.0.5730, 8, 9

References

• http://www.nsfocus.com/en/2012/advisories_1228/119.html
• http://www.nsfocus.com/en/2012/advisories_1228/119.html

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