CVE-2002-2313

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Eudora email client 5.1.1, with "use Microsoft viewer" enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via an HTML email message containing a META refresh tag that references an embedded .mhtml file with ActiveX controls that execute a second embedded program, which is processed by Internet Explorer.

Affected products

Qualcomm Eudora: 5.1.1

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2002-July/000644.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9654.php
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2002-July/000644.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9654.php

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