CVE-2010-0492: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 27.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in mstime.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the TIME2 behavior, the CTimeAction object, and destruction of markup, leading to memory corruption, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 8 only; version 8.0.6001 only
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows 7: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: any version
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version; affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version; affected versions not specified

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