CVE-2002-1262

high

Microsoft

CVSS v3 Base Score

7.5

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Score

11.5%

Exploitation probability in 30 days

Top 6% most likely to be exploited

Attack Characteristics

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Published: December 18, 2002 (8548 days ago)

Last Modified: April 16, 2026

Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 does not perform complete security checks on external caching, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

NVD-CWE-Other

microsoft internet explorer