CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0162

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2000-02-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2000-02-18
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The Microsoft virtual machine (VM) in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x allows a remote attacker to read files via a malicious Java applet that escapes the Java sandbox, aka the "VM File Reading" vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 4.0 • microsoft ie 4.1 • microsoft ie 5 • microsoft ie 5.0 • microsoft internet explorer 4.0 • microsoft visual studio 6.0

References

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-011 docs.microsoft.com
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-011 docs.microsoft.com