CVE-2002-2435

medium
Published 2011-12-07 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 and earlier does not properly handle the :visited pseudo-class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information about visited web pages via a crafted HTML document, a related issue to CVE-2010-2264.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftie7.0.6000.16711
windows microsoftie8.0.7600.16385
windows microsoftie8.0b
windows microsoftinternet_explorer{"endIncluding":"8"}
windows microsoftinternet_explorer3.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer3.0.1
windows microsoftinternet_explorer3.0.2
windows microsoftinternet_explorer3.1
windows microsoftinternet_explorer3.2
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.0.1
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.01
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.1
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.5
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.40.308
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.40.520
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.70.1155
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.70.1158
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.70.1215
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.70.1300
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.71.544
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.71.1008.3
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.71.1712.6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.72.2106.8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.72.3110.8
windows microsoftinternet_explorer4.72.3612.1713
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.0.1
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.0518.10
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.0910.1309
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2014.0216
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2314.1003
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2516.1900
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2614.3500
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2919.800
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2919.3800
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2919.6307
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.2920.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.3103.1000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.3105.0106
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.3314.2101
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.3315.1000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.3502.1000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.00.3700.1000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.01
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.1
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.2.3
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.5
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.3825.1300
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.4030.2400
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.4134.0100
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.4134.0600
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.4308.2900
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.4522.1800
windows microsoftinternet_explorer5.50.4807.2300
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2462.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2479.0006
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2600
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2600.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2800
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2800.1106
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2800.1106
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2900
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.0.2900.2180
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.2900.2180
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3663.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3718.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3790.0000
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3790.1830
windows microsoftinternet_explorer6.00.3790.3959
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0.5730
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.0.5730.11
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.00.5730.1100
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.00.6000.16386
windows microsoftinternet_explorer7.00.6000.16441
windows microsoftinternet_explorer8.0.6001

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.