CVE-2002-0057: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 19.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

XMLHTTP control in Microsoft XML Core Services 2.6 and later does not properly handle IE Security Zone settings, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files by specifying a local file as an XML Data Source.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft SQL Server: version 2000 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version
• Microsoft XML Core Services: version 2.6 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only

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