CVE-2003-0701

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 30.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 6 SP1 for certain languages that support double-byte encodings (e.g., Japanese) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the Type property of an Object tag, a variant of CVE-2003-0344.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01, 5.5, 6.0

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106148101210479&w=2
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/334928
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-032
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12970
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106148101210479&w=2
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/334928
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-032
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12970

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