01 Record
CVE-2001-0722
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read and modify user cookies via Javascript in an about: URL, aka the "First Cookie Handling Vulnerability."
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to read and modify user cookies via Javascript in an about: URL, aka the "First Cookie Handling Vulnerability."
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 27.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2002-03-09 05:00Z24 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 04:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2001-09-27
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- acb3de75441e354e547d63c1e52e0799ac4fa5b3a69fefd53fb0c9d68c09e5f4
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- marc.info20011108 Microsoft IE cookies readable via about: URLShttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100527618108521&w=2
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comie-about-cookie-information(7486)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7486
- www.securityfocus.com3513http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3513
- docs.microsoft.comMS01-055https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-055
- www.osvdb.org1982http://www.osvdb.org/1982
- www.ciac.orgM-016http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-016.shtml
- www.securityfocus.com20011019 Minor IE vulnerability: about: URLshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/221612