CVE-2001-0322 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer by sending a script that manipulates browser window objects, requiring user interaction to visit the malicious page.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2001-0322?
CVE-2001-0322 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 4 Apr 2001. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
MSHTML.DLL HTML parser in Internet Explorer 4.0, and other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a script that creates and deletes an object that is associated with the browser window object.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2001-0322?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express.
How do I fix CVE-2001-0322?
No fix has been published for CVE-2001-0322 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2001-0322 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2001-0322 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
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- CVE-2014-1776 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption
- CVE-2021-27085 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-0222 Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2017-0210 Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2017-0149 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w7f5-4j4j-pr48.