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CVE-2001-1539

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2001-1539 describes a stack consumption vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, specifically within its JavaScript settimeout function. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this flaw with low attack complexity to trigger a denial of service (crash) in affected systems. Despite the potential for a denial of service, the vendor could not reproduce the issue, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0.2900CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0.2900:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1390 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0008.html
Vendor Advisory
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0034.html
iss.net / security_center/static/7661.php