CVE-2002-1291

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
10.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 7% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: November 29, 2002 (8567 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The Microsoft Java implementation, as used in Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary local files and network shares via an applet tag with a codebase set to a "file://%00" (null character) URL.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft java virtual machine

References

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