CVE-2002-0025

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly handle the Content-Type HTML header field, which allows remote attackers to modify which application is used to process a document.

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly handle the Content-Type HTML header field, which allows remote attackers to modify which application is used to process a document.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 22 years ago

2002-03-08 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01

5.01

Microsoft ie 5.5

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

20020212 [ GFISEC04102001 ] Internet Explorer and Access allow macros to be executed automatically

4085

MS02-005

ie-application-invocation(8118)

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