CVE-2001-1539: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 13.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack consumption vulnerability in Internet Explorer The JavaScript settimeout function in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via the JavaScript settimeout function. NOTE: the vendor could not reproduce the problem.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0.2900 only

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