CVE-2003-0701

critical

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12970

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-032

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/334928

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106148101210479&w=2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-08-27

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.30071