CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0025

5.0 MEDIUM 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])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

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.

Affected configurations

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

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-430 Deployment of Wrong Handler weakness

References