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CVE-2001-1539

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 13.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Internet Explorer The JavaScript settimeout function in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the JavaScript settimeout function. NOTE: the vendor could not reproduce the problem.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0.2900

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0008.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0034.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7661.php
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0008.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0034.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7661.php

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