What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0150

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 17.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier executes Telnet sessions using command line arguments that are specified by the web site, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands if the IE client is using the Telnet client provided in Services for Unix (SFU) 2.0, which creates session transcripts.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 5.5

References

• http://www.osvdb.org/7816
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2463
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-015
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6230
• http://www.osvdb.org/7816
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2463
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2001/ms01-015
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6230

Get alerted when CVE-2001-0150 or the next vulnerability affects your stack