CVE-2002-0024

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
4.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 11% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: March 8, 2002 (8833 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

File Download box in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows an attacker to use the Content-Disposition and Content-Type HTML header fields to modify how the name of the file is displayed, which could trick a user into believing that a file is safe to download.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com