Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2002-0101
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.124 (96.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.124 · newest: 0.124 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.5, 6.0
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/3789 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)