CVE-2002-0153

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—Exploit

Severity7.5High · CVSS 2.0

Exploitation probability18 %higher than 97% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitAvailablePublished on Exploit-DB

Internet Explorer 5.1 for Macintosh allows remote attackers to bypass security checks and invoke local AppleScripts within a specific HTML element, aka the "Local Applescript Invocation" vulnerability.

CVSS

Base score: 7.5
Version: 2.0
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 18 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 97
Score date: 10/23/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Public exploits

Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.

Published on Exploit-DB · Apple Mac OS Internet Explorer 3/4/5 - File Execution (1/22/2002)

Affected technologies (1)

Microsoft — IE

CWEs

NVD-CWE-Other

References

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Raw JSON (NVD)

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