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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-0193 in the critical feed json

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Typ…

published 2002-05-29 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0190

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
33.3%
EPSS 33.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields that cause the application for the spoofed file type to pass the file back to the operating system for handling rather than raise an error message, aka the first variant of the "Content Disposition" vulnerability.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21452)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

33.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21452 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1/6.0 - Content-Disposition Handling File Execution remote, 2002-05-15

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.