CVE-2002-0371
Buffer overflow in gopher client for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 through 6.0, Proxy Server 2.0, or ISA Server 2000 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a gopher:// URL that redirects the user to a real or simulated gopher server that sends a long response.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 54.4% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2002-0368)
- Published
- July 3, 2002
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2002-0368 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 8, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / isa server
- microsoft / isa server
- microsoft / proxy server
- microsoft / proxy server
- university of minnesota / gopher
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- ISA Server 2000 with Service Pack 1 and Feature Pack 1, Firewall - Microsoft Corporation - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0218-2003 - archived
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102320516707940&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102397955217618&w=2
- http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/276848
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9247.php
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/440275(US Government Resource)
- http://www.pivx.com/workaround_fail.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4930
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-027
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A98
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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