CVE-2010-0244: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 20.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, leading to memory corruption, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2530 and CVE-2009-2531.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 8 only; version 8.0.6001 only; version 7 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.5730 only; version 7.0.5730.11 only; …

Published 2010-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.