CVEvulnerability
CVE-2001-0724
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2001-11-14
- 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 allows remote attackers to bypass security restrictions via malformed URLs that contain dotless IP addresses, which causes Internet Explorer to process the page in the Intranet Zone, which may have fewer security restrictions, aka the "Zone Spoofing Vulnerability variant" of CVE-2001-0664.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.5
References
- http://www.osvdb.org/5556 www.osvdb.org
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-055 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8471 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/5556 www.osvdb.org
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-055 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8471 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com