CVE-2002-1188: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 12.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to identify the path to the Temporary Internet Files folder and obtain user information such as cookies via certain uses of the OBJECT tag, which are not subjected to the proper security checks, aka "Temporary Internet Files folders Name Reading."

Affected products

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

Published 2002-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.