Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2002-0188
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields that cause the application for the spoofed file type to pass the file back to the operating system for handling rather than raise an error message, aka the second variant of the "Content Disposition" vulnerability.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.163 (96.9th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 96.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.163 · newest: 0.163 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.01, 6.0
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-023 (vendor-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0126.html (mailing-list)
- www.lac.co.jp/security/english/snsadv_e/48_e.html
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/9086.php (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)