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CVE-2010-3971

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 81.66% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2010-12-22 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2010-3971
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
81.66%
Microsoft

Original NVD Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CSharedStyleSheet::Notify function in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) parser in mshtml.dll, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a self-referential @import rule in a stylesheet, aka "CSS Memory Corruption Vulnerability."