CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0024

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-03-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2002-03-08
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

File Download box in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows an attacker to use the Content-Disposition and Content-Type HTML header fields to modify how the name of the file is displayed, which could trick a user into believing that a file is safe to download.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4087 Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-005 docs.microsoft.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4087 Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-005 docs.microsoft.com