CVE-2002-1204: Netscape Communicator

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netscape Communicator 4.x allows attackers to use a link to steal a user's preferences, including potentially sensitive information such as URL history, e-mail address, and possibly the e-mail password, by redefining the user_pref() function and accessing the prefs.js file, which is stored in a directory with a predictable name.

Affected products

• Netscape Communicator: version 4.6 only; version 4.7 only; version 4.61 only; version 4.72 only; version 4.73 only; version 4.74 only; …

Published 2002-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.