CVE-2002-0500: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 16.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of files on the client via an IMG tag with a dynsrc property that references the target file, which sets certain elements of the image object such as file size.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

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