Vulnerabilities > Microsoft > Internet Explorer > 5.5

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2002-03-08 CVE-2002-0027 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5/6.0
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read certain files and spoof the URL in the address bar by using the Document.open function to pass information between two frames from different domains, a new variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability described in MS:MS01-058/CAN-2001-0874.
network
low complexity
microsoft
7.5
2002-03-08 CVE-2002-0026 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5/6.0
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to bypass restrictions for executing scripts via an object that processes asynchronous events after the initial security checks have been made.
network
low complexity
microsoft
7.5
2002-03-08 CVE-2002-0025 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/5.5/6.0
Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly handle the Content-Type HTML header field, which allows remote attackers to modify which application is used to process a document.
network
low complexity
microsoft
5.0
2002-03-08 CVE-2002-0024 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/5.5/6.0
File Download box in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows an attacker to use the Content-Disposition and Content-Type HTML header fields to modify how the name of the file is displayed, which could trick a user into believing that a file is safe to download.
network
low complexity
microsoft
7.5
2002-03-08 CVE-2002-0023 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/5.5/6.0
Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via malformed requests to the GetObject function, which bypass some of GetObject's security checks.
network
low complexity
microsoft
5.0
2002-03-08 CVE-2002-0022 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5/6.0
Buffer overflow in the implementation of an HTML directive in mshtml.dll in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a web page that specifies embedded ActiveX controls in a way that causes 2 Unicode strings to be concatenated.
network
low complexity
microsoft
7.5
2002-01-13 CVE-2002-0077 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1/5.5/6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 treats objects invoked on an HTML page with the codebase property as part of Local Computer zone, which allows remote attackers to invoke executables present on the local system through objects such as the popup object, aka the "Local Executable Invocation via Object tag" vulnerability.
network
low complexity
microsoft
7.5
2001-12-31 CVE-2001-1497 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft IE and Internet Explorer
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 through 6.0 could allow local users to differentiate between alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters used in a password by pressing certain control keys that jump between non-alphanumeric characters, which makes it easier to conduct a brute-force password guessing attack.
local
low complexity
microsoft
2.1
2001-12-20 CVE-2001-1219 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5/6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows malicious website operators to cause a denial of service (client crash) via JavaScript that continually refreshes the window via self.location.
network
low complexity
microsoft
5.0
2001-12-14 CVE-2001-0727 Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5/6.0
Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in a way that causes Internet Explorer to believe that the file is safe to open without prompting the user, aka the "File Execution Vulnerability."
network
low complexity
microsoft
7.5