CVE-2010-0481

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Apr 14, 2010
Updated: Jan 21, 2025
Reserved: Feb 2, 2010

Description

The kernel in Microsoft Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7 does not properly translate a registry key's virtual path to its real path, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (reboot) via a crafted application, aka "Windows Virtual Path Parsing Vulnerability."

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

39374third-party-advisory
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6770vdb-entrysignature
MS10-021vendor-advisory
TA10-103Athird-party-advisory
39373third-party-advisory
1023850vdb-entry

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