CVE-2002-0058: Microsoft Virtual Machine

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in Java Runtime Environment (JRE) allows remote malicious web sites to hijack or sniff a web client's sessions, when an HTTP proxy is being used, via a Java applet that redirects the session to another server, as seen in (1) Netscape 6.0 through 6.1 and 4.79 and earlier, (2) Microsoft VM build 3802 and earlier as used in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x, and possibly other implementations that use vulnerable versions of SDK or JDK.

Affected products

• Microsoft Virtual Machine: version 3802 only
• Sun JDK: version 1.1.8 only
• Sun JRE: version 1.1.8 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.3.0 only
• Sun SDK: version 1.1.8_007 only; version 1.2.2_10 only; version 1.2.2_010 only; version 1.3_02 only

Published 2002-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.