CVE-2001-0002

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the physical location of cached content and open the content in the Local Computer Zone, then use compiled HTML help (.chm) files to execute arbitrary programs.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the physical location of cached content and open the content in the Local Computer Zone, then use compiled HTML help (.chm) files to execute arbitrary programs.

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

First reported 23 years ago

2001-07-21 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01

5.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft windows_script_host 5.1

5.1

Microsoft windows_script_host 5.5

5.5

References

http://www.guninski.com/chmtempmain.html

7823

2456

MS01-015

ie-chm-execute-files(5567)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:920

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