CVE-2001-0722: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 27.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read and modify user cookies via Javascript in an about: URL, aka the "First Cookie Handling Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2001-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.