CVE-2012-6502: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 10.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer before 10 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about the existence of files, and read certain data from files, via a UNC share pathname in the SRC attribute of a SCRIPT element, as demonstrated by reading a name-value pair from a local file via a \\127.0.0.1\C$\ sequence.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only; version 7.0.5730 only; version 8 only; version 9 only

Published 2013-01-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.