Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2002-1186
Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly perform security checks on certain encoded characters within a URL, which allows a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information from a user by redirecting the user to another site that has that information, aka "Encoded Characters Information Disclosure."
EPSS: 0.191 (97.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.0.1, 5.5, 6.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)