CVE-2002-1564: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to steal potentially sensitive information from cookies via a cookie that contains script which is executed when a page is loaded, aka the "Script within Cookies Reading Cookies" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2003-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.