CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0188

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-05-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-05-29
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

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields that cause the application for the spoofed file type to pass the file back to the operating system for handling rather than raise an error message, aka the second variant of the "Content Disposition" vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References