CVE-2002-1714

Microsoft IE - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Matthew Murphy · htmldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21404

Scores

EPSS 0.1973
EPSS Percentile 95.5%

Details

Status published
Products (4)
microsoft/ie 6.0 sp1
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.0
microsoft/internet_explorer 5.5 (3 CPE variants)
microsoft/internet_explorer 6.0
Published Dec 31, 2002
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026