CVE-2002-0867

Virtual Machine vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

27.3%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) up to and including build 5.0.3805 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) in Internet Explorer via invalid handle data in a Java applet, aka "Handle Validation Flaw."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Virtual Machine

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-10-11

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 27.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-0867.
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