CVE-2000-0767: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ActiveX control for invoking a scriptlet in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x renders arbitrary file types instead of HTML, which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files, aka the "Scriptlet Rendering" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.01 only; version 5.5 only

Published 2000-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.