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CVE-2000-0596 (GCVE-0-2000-0596)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2000-10-13 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 05:21
VLAI
Summary
Internet Explorer 5.x does not warn a user before opening a Microsoft Access database file that is referenced within ActiveX OBJECT tags in an HTML document, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, aka the "IE Script" vulnerability.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pi… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1398 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pi… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-16.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
Date Public
2000-06-27 00:00
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