CVE-2000-0162 (GCVE-0-2000-0162)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2000-03-22 05:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:05
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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