CVE-2002-0976

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
55.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: September 24, 2002 (8633 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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