CVE-2002-0189: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute scripts in the Local Computer zone via a URL that exploits a local HTML resource file, aka the "Cross-Site Scripting in Local HTML Resource" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2002-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.