CVE-2001-1489 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. This flaw allows remote attackers to consume excessive CPU resources and cause a memory leak by presenting a web page with a large number of images. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.0), it has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but only results in availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6:windows_server_2003_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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