CVE-2001-0150

Internet Explorer vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

17.6%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier executes Telnet sessions using command line arguments that are specified by the web site, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands if the IE client is using the Telnet client provided in Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0, which creates session transcripts.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Internet Explorer

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

Published

2001-06-02

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, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 17.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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