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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2002-0025 json

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 wh…

published 2002-03-08 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0025

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.2%
EPSS 14.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Exploit prediction

14.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.