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CVE-2000-0162

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2000-03-22 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 4.0, 4.1, 5, 5.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 4.0
• Microsoft Visual Studio: 6.0

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-011
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-011

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