Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie

CVE-2004-1686

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin.

EPSS: 0.103 (95.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

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