CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0002

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-07-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-07-21
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

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer (<= 5.5) • microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft windows script host 5.1 • microsoft windows script host 5.5

References