Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2001-1497
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 through 6.0 could allow local users to differentiate between alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters used in a password by pressing certain control keys that jump between non-alphanumeric characters, which makes it easier to conduct a brute-force password guessing attack.
EPSS: 0.020 (79.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.1
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.5
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)