CVE-2002-0976: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 14.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 4.0 and later allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a web page that accesses a legacy XML Datasource applet (com.ms.xml.dso.XMLDSO.class) and modifies the base URL to point to the local system, which is trusted by the applet.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

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