CVE-2003-0531: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 26.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP3 through 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to access and execute script in the My Computer domain using the browser cache via crafted Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers, aka the "Browser Cache Script Execution in My Computer Zone" vulnerability.

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 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.