CVE-2002-0691: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 5.5 allows remote attackers to execute scripts in the Local Computer zone via a URL that references a local HTML resource file, a variant of "Cross-Site Scripting in Local HTML Resource" as identified by CAN-2002-0189.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only

Published 2002-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.