CVE-2002-0152

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
22.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: April 22, 2002 (8788 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Buffer overflow in various Microsoft applications for Macintosh allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code by invoking the file:// directive with a large number of / characters, which affects Internet Explorer 5.1, Outlook Express 5.0 through 5.0.2, Entourage v. X and 2001, PowerPoint v. X, 2001, and 98, and Excel v. X and 2001 for Macintosh.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft entouragemicrosoft excelmicrosoft iemicrosoft officemicrosoft outlook expressmicrosoft powerpoint

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.iss.net 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com