5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
6.1 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.753 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.2%
Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly perform security checks on certain encoded characters within a URL, which allows a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information from a user by redirecting the user to another site that has that information, aka “Encoded Characters Information Disclosure.”
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0018.html
archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0030.html
www.iss.net/security_center/static/10039.php
www.osvdb.org/7845
www.securityfocus.com/bid/5610
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-066
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A143
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A471
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A495