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CVE-2002-1258

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Two vulnerabilities in Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) up to and including build 5.0.3805, as used in Internet Explorer and other applications, allow remote attackers to read files via a Java applet with a spoofed location in the CODEBASE parameter in the APPLET tag, possibly due to a parsing error.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 95: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 98Se: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Me: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0-sp1, 4.0-sp2, 4.0-sp3, 4.0-sp4, 4.0-sp5, 4.0-sp6 (+1)
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-069
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A582
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-069
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A582

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