CVE-2001-1489: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and memory leak) via a web page with a large number of images.

Affected products

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.