CVE detail

CVE-2002-1291 — CVE-2002-1291

Published 2002-11-29 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor microsoft · Product java_virtual_machine · Source nvd

UNKNOWN

severity

CVSS-derived band

n/a

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.1837

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

97.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The Microsoft Java implementation, as used in Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary local files and network shares via an applet tag with a codebase set to a "file://%00" (null character) URL.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

cvedb.io · NVD · CISA KEV · FIRST EPSS · vendor advisories (CVE Program List v5). Informational only, no warranty — verify every remediation against the vendor advisory before acting on it. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD, CISA, FIRST.org or any vendor named. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.