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CVE-2002-0976 (GCVE-0-2002-0976)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-08-23 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:12
VLAI
Summary
Internet Explorer 4.0 and later allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a web page that accesses a legacy XML Datasource applet (com.ms.xml.dso.XMLDSO.class) and modifies the base URL to point to the local system, which is trusted by the applet.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102960731805373&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9885.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5490 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2002-08-17 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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