CVE-2001-0727 describes a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. By manipulating Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields, an attacker could trick IE into opening malicious files without user prompting, leading to system compromise. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, posing significant risks to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and high FAUCET Risk Score, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.