CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0269

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

Internet Explorer 5.x and 6 interprets an object as an HTML document even when its MIME Content-Type is text/plain, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script in documents that the user does not expect, possibly through web applications that use a text/plain type to prevent cross-site scripting attacks.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 5.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References