CVE-2000-0596: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 24.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.x does not warn a user before opening a Microsoft Access database file that is referenced within ActiveX OBJECT tags in an HTML document, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, aka the "IE Script" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 4.0.1 only; version 5 only

Published 2000-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.