PT-2002-2845 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2002-12-31 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2002-2125

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Internet Explorer version 6.0

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to decrypt web sessions via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack because it does not warn users when an expired certificate authority (CA) certificate is submitted and a newer CA certificate is in the user's local repository.

Recommendations: For Internet Explorer version 6.0, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2002-2125

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-2125 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/5778 · Note
• http://iss.net/security_center/static/10180.php · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/292842 · Note