CVE-2002-2125

Ie vulnerability

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

8.3%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Internet Explorer 6.0 does not warn users when an expired certificate authority (CA) certificate is submitted to the user and a newer CA certificate is in the user's local repository, which could allow remote attackers to decrypt web sessions via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

CVSS vector

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

Published

2002-12-31

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 8.3% 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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