CVE-2002-1714
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.4%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 19.41% probability · 97th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/ie · microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.