CVE-2003-0532

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
27.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: August 27, 2003 (8296 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP3 through 6.0 SP1 does not properly determine object types that are returned by web servers, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an object tag with a data parameter to a malicious file hosted on a server that returns an unsafe Content-Type, aka the "Object Type" vulnerability.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 marc.info 🔗 www.eeye.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 docs.microsoft.com