CVE-2010-2118: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 10.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and 8.0.7600.16385 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via JavaScript code containing an infinite loop that creates IFRAME elements for invalid news:// URIs.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 8.0.7600.16385 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0.2900.2180 only

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