CVE-2002-0101: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 12.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.

Affected products

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

Published 2002-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.