CVE-2002-0354

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-06-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The XMLHttpRequest object (XMLHTTP) in Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and list directories on a client system by opening a URL that redirects the browser to the file on the client, then reading the result using the responseText property.

Affected products

Mozilla: 0.9.7, 0.9.9, 1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2, 1.0-rc3
Netscape Navigator: 6.1, 6.2

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102017952204097&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102020343728766&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102017952204097&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102020343728766&w=2

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