CVE-2000-0266: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 16.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.01 only

Published 2000-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.