CVE

Id
5646  
CVE No.
CVE-2002-1262  
Status
Candidate  
Description
Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 does not perform complete security checks on external caching, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files.  
Phase
Proposed (20030317)  
Votes
ACCEPT(3) Cole, Green, Wall | NOOP(2) Christey, Cox  
Comments
Christey> NOTE: Early versions of Microsoft bulletin MS02-069 | also assigned for a "user.dir exposure" issue. This | candidate should *ONLY* be used for the external caching issue | as covered in MS:MS02-068; the "user.dir" issue is identified | by CVE-2002-1365.