CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-0980

Published: Sep 24, 2002 | Modified: Jul 23, 2021
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5-sp1 (including) 5.5-sp1 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 5.5-sp2 (including) 5.5-sp2 (including)
Internet_explorer Microsoft 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)

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