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CVE-2002-0461

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-0461 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.01 through 6, where a specially crafted JavaScript in a webpage can cause the application to crash by repeatedly calling location.replace on itself. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a partial availability impact. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with 10 mentions.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0.1:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
22.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-21346 · Mar 19, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2262 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

online.securityfocus.com / archive/1/262994
Vendor Advisory
iss.net / security_center/static/8488.php
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/4322
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory