CVE-2002-0228

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.199 · 97 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

19.9% (97th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Microsoft MSN Messenger allows remote attackers to use Javascript that references an ActiveX object to obtain sensitive information such as display names and web site navigation, and possibly more when the user is connected to certain Microsoft sites (or DNS-spoofed sites).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-284USLLM-inferred

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft msn messenger= 2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft msn messenger= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft msn messenger= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft msn messenger= 4.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft msn messenger= 4.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:msn_messenger:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2002-05-16modified 2026-06-16

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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