CVE-2003-0116: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 25.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 does not properly check the Cascading Style Sheet input parameter for Modal dialogs, which allows remote attackers to read files on the local system via a web page containing script that creates a dialog and then accesses the target files, aka "Modal Dialog script execution."

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2003-05-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.