CVE-2010-0489: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 23.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Race condition in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6, 6 SP1, and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Race Condition Memory Corruption 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.