CVE-2003-0701: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 30.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 6 SP1 for certain languages that support double-byte encodings (e.g., Japanese) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the Type property of an Object tag, a variant of CVE-2003-0344.

Affected products

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

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