CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0400

7.5 HIGH Published 2000-05-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-05-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The Microsoft Active Movie ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer 5 does not restrict which file types can be downloaded, which allows an attacker to download any type of file to a user's system by encoding it within an email message or news post.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References