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Medium Published: Feb 18, 2000 Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVE-2000-0162

5.1 CVSS SCORE
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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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.

CVSS Vector Details

Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Confidentiality P
Integrity P
Availability P

Affected Software Configurations

  • a microsoft ie 4.0 * windows_98 * * * * *
  • a microsoft ie 4.0 * windows_nt * * * * *
  • a microsoft ie 4.1 * windows_95 * * * * *
  • a microsoft ie 4.1 * windows_nt_4.0 * * * * *
  • a microsoft ie 5 * windows_nt_4.0 * * * * *
  • a microsoft ie 5.0 * windows_95 * * * * *
  • a microsoft ie 5.0 * windows_98 * * * * *
  • a microsoft internet_explorer 4.0 * * * * * * *
  • a microsoft visual_studio 6.0 * * * * * * *

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • NVD-CWE-Other