CVE-2002-0980: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 26.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Web Folder component for Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 writes an error message to a known location in the temporary folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting it into the error message, then referring to the error message file via a mhtml: URL.

Affected products

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

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