CVE-2011-1255
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 42.1%EU EUVD
The Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (aka HTML+TIME) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 8 does not properly handle objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by accessing an object that (1) was not properly initialized or (2) is deleted, aka "Time Element Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-908
- EPSS score
- 42.1% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1263)
- Published
- June 16, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1263 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / windows 7
- microsoft / windows server 2003
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows server 2008
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
- microsoft / windows xp
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/14/ms11-050-ie9-is-better.aspx(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/72947(Broken Link)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-050(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12227(Tool Signature)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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