CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. Its EPSS score suggests a 21.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2002-1185
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
21.34%
Original NVD Description
Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6.0 does not properly check certain parameters of a PNG file when opening it, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering a heap-based buffer overflow using invalid length codes during decompression, aka "Malformed PNG Image File Failure."