CVE-2002-2435

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
21.3%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: December 7, 2011 (5272 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document, a related issue to CVE-2010-2264.

CWE

CWE-200

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 bugzilla.mozilla.org 🔗 w2spconf.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 bugzilla.mozilla.org 🔗 w2spconf.com