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high 7.5

CVE-2002-0189 in the critical feed json

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute scripts in the Local Computer zone via a URL…

published 2002-05-17 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0186

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
13.6%
EPSS 13.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute scripts in the Local Computer zone via a URL that exploits a local HTML resource file, aka the "Cross-Site Scripting in Local HTML Resource" vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21750)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

13.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21750 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 - Dialog Same Origin Policy Bypass Variant (MS02-047) remote, 2002-04-16

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

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