CVE-2000-0162

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
1.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 19% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: February 18, 2000 (9582 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorermicrosoft visual studio

References

🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com