CVE-2000-0596

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Internet Explorer

First reported 24 years ago

2000-06-27 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1 SP2

4.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5

5

References

CA-2000-16

US Government Resource

1398

20000627 FW: IE 5 and Access 2000 vulnerability - executing programs

20000627 IE 5 and Access 2000 vulnerability - executing programs

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

MS00-049

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