CVE-2002-1258: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 15.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Two vulnerabilities in Microsoft Virtual Machine (VM) up to and including build 5.0.3805, as used in Internet Explorer and other applications, allow remote attackers to read files via a Java applet with a spoofed location in the CODEBASE parameter in the APPLET tag, possibly due to a parsing error.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services: any version
• Microsoft Windows 95: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2002-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.