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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2004-1686

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as…

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 10.3%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.3%, higher than 95% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Internet Explorer 6.0 in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Information Bar prompt for ActiveX and Javascript via an XHTML page that contains an Internet Explorer formatted comment between the DOCTYPE tag and the HTML tag, as demonstrated using the DesignScience MathPlayer ActiveX plugin.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS
10.27% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
microsoft/ie
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.