CVE-2002-0025

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
15.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: March 8, 2002 (8833 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly handle the Content-Type HTML header field, which allows remote attackers to modify which application is used to process a document.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 online.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 online.securityfocus.com