CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0980
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-09-24
- 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
The Web Folder component for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 writes an error message to a known location in the temporary folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting it into the error message, then referring to the error message file via a mhtml: URL.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.5
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-344 Use of Invariant Value in Dynamically Changing Context weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102942234427691&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102937705527922&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102943486811091&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9881.php www.iss.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5473 www.securityfocus.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-014 docs.microsoft.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102942234427691&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102937705527922&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102943486811091&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9881.php www.iss.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5473 www.securityfocus.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-014 docs.microsoft.com