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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-0153 in the critical feed json

Internet Explorer 5.1 for Macintosh allows remote attackers to bypass security checks and invoke local AppleScripts within a specific HTML…

published 2002-04-22 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0153

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
17.7%
EPSS 17.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Internet Explorer 5.1 for Macintosh allows remote attackers to bypass security checks and invoke local AppleScripts within a specific HTML element, aka the "Local Applescript Invocation" vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21238)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

17.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21238 Apple Mac OS Internet Explorer 3/4/5 - File Execution remote, 2002-01-22

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.