CVE-2000-0790

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

The web-based folder display capability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows local users to insert Trojan horse programs by modifying the Folder.htt file and using the InvokeVerb method in the ShellDefView ActiveX control to specify a default execute option for the first file that is listed in the folder.

The web-based folder display capability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows local users to insert Trojan horse programs by modifying the Folder.htt file and using the InvokeVerb method in the ShellDefView ActiveX control to specify a default execute option for the first file that is listed in the folder.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 24 years ago

2000-10-20 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 2000

Microsoft windows 98_gold

Microsoft windows 98_se

References

1571

Vendor Advisory

20000828 IE 5.5/5.x for Win98 may execute arbitrary files that can be accessed thru Microsoft Networking. Also local Administrator compromise at least on default Windows 2000.

Vendor Advisory

ie-folder-remote-exe(5097)

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