CVE-2003-0809: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 27.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly handle object tags returned from a Web server during XML data binding, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML e-mail message or web page.

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 2003-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.