CVE-2002-1186

Publication date

2004-09-01 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly perform security checks on certain encoded characters within a URL, which allows a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information from a user by redirecting the user to another site that has that information, aka "Encoded Characters Information Disclosure."