Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2000-0596
Internet Explorer 5.x does not warn a user before opening a Microsoft Access database file that is referenced within ActiveX OBJECT tags in an HTML document, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, aka the "IE Script" vulnerability.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.248 (97.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.248 · newest: 0.248 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 4.0.1, 5
References
- www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/1398 (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-049 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike (mailing-list)
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-16.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)