CVE-2003-1028: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 19.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The download function of Internet Explorer 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to obtain the cache directory name via an HTTP response with an invalid ContentType and a .htm file, which could allow remote attackers to bypass security mechanisms that rely on random names, as demonstrated by threadid10008.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2004-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.