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CVE-2002-0722
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to misrepresent the source of a file in the File Download dialogue…
High7.5EPSS 12.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6.0 allows remote attackers to misrepresent the source of a file in the File Download dialogue box to trick users into thinking that the file type is safe to download, aka "File Origin Spoofing."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.7% · top 3.7% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- MS02-047 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 5559 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 5129 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 20020828 Origin of downloaded files can be spoofed in MSIE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ie-file-origin-spoofing(9937) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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