CVE-2002-0025: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 14.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly handle the Content-Type HTML header field, which allows remote attackers to modify which application is used to process a document.

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.