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CVE-2002-0980 (GCVE-0-2002-0980)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-08-23 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:12
VLAI
Summary
The Web Folder component for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 writes an error message to a known location in the temporary folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting it into the error message, then referring to the error message file via a mhtml: URL.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=vuln-dev&m=102943486811091&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_VULN-DEV
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http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9881.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5473 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=102937705527922&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ
Date Public
2002-08-15 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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