CVE-2001-0807 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, and potentially other versions, where a malicious webpage could read local text files from a client's hard drive. This is achieved by using a SCRIPT tag with a source attribute pointing to the target file. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.6, indicating a network attack vector with high attack complexity and a potential impact limited to confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.