Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-1999-0668
The scriptlet.typelib ActiveX control is marked as "safe for scripting" for Internet Explorer, which allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as demonstrated by Bubbleboy.
EPSS: 0.226 (97.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 4.0, 5.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (government-resource, third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CIAC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MSKB)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)