CVE-2010-0488: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 29.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, and 7 does not properly handle unspecified "encoding strings," which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information via a crafted web site, aka "Post Encoding Information Disclosure Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7 only; version 6 only; version 5.01 only
• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: any version; affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version; affected versions not specified

Published 2010-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.