What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities
CVE-2003-1028
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 19.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2004-01-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
The download function of Internet Explorer 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to obtain the cache directory name via an HTTP response with an invalid ContentType and a .htm file, which could allow remote attackers to bypass security mechanisms that rely on random names, as demonstrated by threadid10008.
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.1-sp1, 5.0.1-sp2, 5.0.1-sp3, 5.5 (+3)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106979428718705&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106979624321665&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107038202225587&w=2
- http://www.osvdb.org/7890
- http://www.safecenter.net/UMBRELLAWEBV4/threadid10008
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13847
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106979428718705&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106979624321665&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107038202225587&w=2
- http://www.osvdb.org/7890
- http://www.safecenter.net/UMBRELLAWEBV4/threadid10008
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13847
Get alerted when CVE-2003-1028 or the next vulnerability affects your stack