CVE-2002-1714

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.

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:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 22 years ago

2002-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

5.0

Microsoft ie 5.5

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

20020420 DoS in Multiple IE Versions (Self-Referenced Directives)

4564

ie-object-directive-dos(8904)

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