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."
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:19:27.688Z

Reserved: 2002-10-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-1186

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2002-12-11T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-1186

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