CVE-2002-0461: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript in a web page that calls location.replace on itself, causing a loop.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.