CVE-2003-0532: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 SP3 through 6.0 SP1 does not properly determine object types that are returned by web servers, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an object tag with a data parameter to a malicious file hosted on a server that returns an unsafe Content-Type, aka the "Object Type" 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.