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CVE-2001-0091

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-02-16 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 4.0, 5.0, 5.01, 5.5

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/7820
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-093
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6085
• http://www.osvdb.org/7820
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-093
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6085

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