CVE-2002-0136

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

7.7%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows remote web pages to cause a denial of service (hang) via extremely long values for form fields such as INPUT and TEXTAREA, which can be automatically filled via Javascript.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-03-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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