CVE-2002-0136

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.7% 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 5.5 on Windows 98 allows remote web pages to cause a denial of service (hang) via extremely long values for form fields such as INPUT and TEXTAREA, which can be automatically filled via Javascript.

Affected products

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

References

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/250592
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3892
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7938
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/250592
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3892
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7938

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