CVE-2002-1714: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 19.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.