CVE-2003-0701 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Buffer overflow in Internet Explorer 6 SP1 for certain languages that support double-byte encodings (e.g., Japanese) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the Type property of an Object tag, a variant of CVE-2003-0344.

Published: 2003-08-22

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 44.4% 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

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0::windows_server_2003:::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:::::::*
	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 Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.44357.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106148101210479&w=2
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/334928
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-032
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12970

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Ie Internet Explorer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-08-22T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:05:12.252Z

Reserved: 2003-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2003-0701

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2003-0701

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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