Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/6.0 Content Header privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/6.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Content Header Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2002-0193. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. Furthermore, an exploit is available. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01/6.0 (Web Browser). This issue affects an unknown code of the component Content Header Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 and 6.0 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields that cause the application for the spoofed file type to pass the file back to the operating system for handling rather than raise an error message, aka the first variant of the "Content Disposition" vulnerability.

The issue has been introduced in 11/08/1999. The weakness was published 05/29/2002 by Yuu Arai as MS02-023 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). It is possible to read the advisory at microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-0193. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 933 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10861 (MS02-005: MSIE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative Patch (890923)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins.

Applying the patch MS02-023 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at microsoft.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (9085), Exploit-DB (21452), Tenable (10861), SecurityFocus (BID 4752†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-1191†). Similar entries are available at VDB-3, VDB-45, VDB-257 and VDB-378. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Access: Public
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Nessus ID: 10861
Nessus Name: MS02-005: MSIE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative Patch (890923)
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OpenVAS ID: 10861
OpenVAS Name: IE 5.01 5.5 6.0 Cumulative patch (890923)
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Patch: MS02-023

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05/29/2002 +14 days 🔍
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06/05/2003 +372 days 🔍
07/11/2014 +4054 days 🔍
06/15/2025 +3992 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS02-023
Researcher: Yuu Arai
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2002-0193 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-0193
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-18155

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X-Force: 9085 - Microsoft Internet Explorer \
SecurityFocus: 4752
Vulnerability Center: 1191 - [MS02-047] Microsoft Internet Explorer Wrong Handling of HTTP Headers Allows File Execution, Medium

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 07/11/2014 13:59
Updated: 06/15/2025 04:25
Changes: 07/11/2014 13:59 (76), 04/07/2017 12:07 (1), 06/27/2021 10:07 (3), 06/15/2025 04:25 (23)
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