CVE-2002-1254: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 53.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross-domain security model and access information on the local system or in other domains, and possibly execute code, via cached methods and objects, aka "Cross Domain Verification via Cached Methods."

Affected products

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

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