CVE-2002-1714

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0-6.0 - Denial of Service via Recursive HTML Object Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2002-1714. PoCs published by Matthew Murphy.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit demonstrates a denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer by using a self-referential <OBJECT> tag. The vulnerability is triggered when an object of type 'text/html' references its own HTML document, causing the browser to crash.

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

This exploit demonstrates a denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer by using a self-referential <OBJECT> tag. The vulnerability is triggered when an object of type 'text/html' references its own HTML document, causing the browser to crash.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Microsoft Internet Explorer (versions affected in 2002)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Victim must open the malicious HTML file in a vulnerable version of Internet Explorer
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/268776
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4564
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8904

Scores

EPSS 0.1941
EPSS Percentile 97.0%

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