CVE-2002-1444 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Google toolbar 1.1.60, when running on Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash with an exception in oleaut32.dll) via malicious HTML, possibly related to small width and height parameters or an incorrect call to the Google.Search() function.

Published: 2003-03-18

Score: 2.6 Low

EPSS: 17.2% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:google:toolbar:1.1.60:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.17181.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/287498
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9883.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5477
http://www.sztolnia.pl/hack/googIE/googIE.html

History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.15971}`	epss `{'score': 0.17104}`

Subscriptions

Google Toolbar

Microsoft Internet Explorer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-03-18T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:28.724Z

Reserved: 2003-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1444

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-08-15T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-1444

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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