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CVE-2001-0002
Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the physical location of cached content and open the content in the…
High7.5EPSS 20.2%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.2% · top 2.5% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:920 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 7823 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- MS01-015 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- ie-chm-execute-files(5567) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 2456 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.guninski.com/chmtempmain.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .