CVE-2001-0091

low Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
13.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 6% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: February 16, 2001 (9218 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The ActiveX control for invoking a scriptlet in Internet Explorer 5.0 through 5.5 renders arbitrary file types instead of HTML, which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files, aka a variant of the "Scriptlet Rendering" vulnerability.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 docs.microsoft.com