CVE-2010-1127: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 18.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 does not initialize certain data structures during execution of the createElement method, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by setting the (1) outerHTML or (2) value property of an object returned by createElement.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only; version 6.00.2462.0000 only; version 6.00.2479.0006 only; version 6.0.2600 only; version 6.00.2600.0000 only; version 6.0.2800 only; …

Published 2010-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.