Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2000-0201
The window.showHelp() method in Internet Explorer 5.x does not restrict HTML help files (.chm) to be executed from the local host, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via Microsoft Networking.
EPSS: 0.068 (93.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.0, 5.01
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)