CVE-2002-1824

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
3.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 13% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: December 31, 2002 (8535 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, when handling an expired CA-CERT in a webserver's certificate chain during a SSL/TLS handshake, does not prompt the user before searching for and finding a newer certificate, which may allow attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. NOTE: it is not clear whether this poses a vulnerability.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

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