CVE-2002-0980

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 26.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Web Folder component for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 writes an error message to a known location in the temporary folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting it into the error message, then referring to the error message file via a mhtml: URL.

Affected products

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

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102942234427691&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102937705527922&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102943486811091&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9881.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5473
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-014
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102942234427691&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102937705527922&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102943486811091&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9881.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5473
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-014

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