Arbitrary Program Execution via Cached Content in Internet Explorer 5.5 and Earlier

Arbitrary Program Execution via Cached Content in Internet Explorer 5.5 and Earlier

CVE-2001-0002 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the physical location of cached content and open the content in the Local Computer Zone, then use compiled HTML help (.chm) files to execute arbitrary programs.

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