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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2010-3327

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

The implementation of HTML content creation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not remove the Anchor element during pasting and editing, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive deleted information by visiting a web page, aka "Anchor Element Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published