CVE-2000-0266 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Internet Explorer 5.01 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross frame security policy via a malicious applet that interacts with the Java JSObject to modify the DOM properties to set the IFRAME to an arbitrary Javascript URL.

Published: 2000-04-26

Score: 2.6 Low

EPSS: 1.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.01:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2000-0265	Internet Explorer 5.01 allows remote attackers to bypass the cross frame security policy via a malicious applet that interacts with the Java JSObject to modify the DOM properties to set the IFRAME to an arbitrary Javascript URL.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01829.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1121
http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=1&msg=38FC6130.D6D178FD%40nat.bg

History

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Subscriptions

Microsoft Internet Explorer

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2000-04-26T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T05:14:20.634Z

Reserved: 2000-04-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2000-0266

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2000-04-18T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2000-0266

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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