CVE-2010-5071: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The JavaScript implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier does not properly restrict the set of values contained in the object returned by the getComputedStyle method, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages by calling this method.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 7.0.6000.16711 only; version 8.0.7600.16385 only; version 8.0b only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 8; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; …

Published 2011-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.