Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-1714 - Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft IE and Internet Explorer

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
microsoft
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2002-12-31
Updated: 2021-07-23

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Microsoft
6

Exploit-Db

descriptionMicrosoft Internet Explorer 5/6 Self-Referential Object Denial of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2002-1714. Dos exploit for windows platform
idEDB-ID:21404
last seen2016-02-02
modified2002-04-20
published2002-04-20
reporterMatthew Murphy
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/21404/
titleMicrosoft Internet Explorer 5/6 Self-Referential Object Denial of Service Vulnerability

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