CVE-2002-1714

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 19.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0, 5.5, 5.5-sp1, 5.5-sp2, 6.0

References

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4564
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8904
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4564
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8904

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