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CVE-2002-0101

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 12.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.5, 5.5-sp1, 5.5-sp2, 6.0

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101039104608083&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3789
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101039104608083&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3789

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