CVE-2002-0024: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

File Download box in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 allows an attacker to use the Content-Disposition and Content-Type HTML header fields to modify how the name of the file is displayed, which could trick a user into believing that a file is safe to download.

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.