CVE-2002-0136: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows remote web pages to cause a denial of service (hang) via extremely long values for form fields such as INPUT and TEXTAREA, which can be automatically filled via Javascript.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.5 only

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