CVE-2001-0091

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

2.6

EPSS

5.5%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

The ActiveX control for invoking a scriptlet in Internet Explorer 5.0 through 5.5 renders arbitrary file types instead of HTML, which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files, aka a variant of the "Scriptlet Rendering" vulnerability.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

2001-02-16

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 5.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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