Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2002-0980
The Web Folder component for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 writes an error message to a known location in the temporary folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting it into the error message, then referring to the error message file via a mhtml: URL.
EPSS: 0.267 (97.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.5, 6.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_VULN-DEV)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ)