CVE-2002-0023: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via malformed requests to the GetObject function, which bypass some of GetObject's security checks.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2002-03-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.