CVE-2002-0354: Mozilla

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XMLHttpRequest object (XMLHTTP) in Netscape 6.1 and Mozilla 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and list directories on a client system by opening a URL that redirects the browser to the file on the client, then reading the result using the responseText property.

Affected products

• Mozilla Mozilla: version 0.9.7 only; version 0.9.9 only; version 1.0 only
• Netscape Navigator: version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only

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