CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1497

2.1 LOW Published 2001-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 through 6.0 could allow local users to differentiate between alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters used in a password by pressing certain control keys that jump between non-alphanumeric characters, which makes it easier to conduct a brute-force password guessing attack.

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 4.0 • microsoft ie 4.0.1 • microsoft ie 4.1 • microsoft internet explorer 4.0 • microsoft internet explorer 4.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-206 Observable Internal Behavioral Discrepancy weakness

References