CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-1291
5.0 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2002-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
The Microsoft Java implementation, as used in Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary local files and network shares via an applet tag with a codebase set to a "file://%00" (null character) URL.
Affected configurations
• microsoft java virtual machine 1.1
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-177 Improper Handling of URL Encoding (Hex Encoding) weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103682630823080&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=103684360031565&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10584.php www.iss.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6138 www.securityfocus.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103682630823080&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=103684360031565&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10584.php www.iss.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6138 www.securityfocus.com