CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0976

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2002-09-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

Internet Explorer 4.0 and later allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a web page that accesses a legacy XML Datasource applet (com.ms.xml.dso.XMLDSO.class) and modifies the base URL to point to the local system, which is trusted by the applet.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 4.0 • microsoft internet explorer 4.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References