CVE-2002-1188

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
16.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: December 11, 2002 (8555 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to identify the path to the Temporary Internet Files folder and obtain user information such as cookies via certain uses of the OBJECT tag, which are not subjected to the proper security checks, aka "Temporary Internet Files folders Name Reading."

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

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