CVE-2002-0052: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 18.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier does not properly handle VBScript in certain domain security checks, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

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