CVE-2001-1218 — Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix 5.0SP1 allows local users to possibly cause a denial of service (crash) in CDE or the X server on Solaris 2.6 by rapidly scrolling Chinese characters or maximizing the window

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Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix 5.0SP1 allows local users to possibly cause a denial of service (crash) in CDE or the X server on Solaris 2.6 by rapidly scrolling Chinese characters or maximizing the window

Published Mar 15, 2002

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.49%

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix 5.0SP1 allows local users to possibly cause a denial of service (crash) in CDE or the X server on Solaris 2.6 by rapidly scrolling Chinese characters or maximizing the window.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.49% 0.01487

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01487

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.49% (0.01487)	73.10th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.38% (0.01376)	68.38th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.20% (0.00198)	39.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	15.31th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 6, 2024	0.04% (0.00045)	13.16th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 24, 2023	0.04% (0.00045)	11.15th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.84th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.50% (0.01503)	73.56th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Mar 2, 2023	1.50% (0.01503)	73.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.50% (0.01503)	71.54th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.50% (0.01503)	50.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246611
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3729
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246611		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3729		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 15, 2002

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved Mar 15, 2002

Link CVE-2001-1218

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2001-1218

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2001-1218