CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0767

2.6 LOW Published 2000-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2000-10-20
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

The ActiveX control for invoking a scriptlet in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x renders arbitrary file types instead of HTML, which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files, aka the "Scriptlet Rendering" vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 4.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1564 Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-055 docs.microsoft.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1564 Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-055 docs.microsoft.com