CVE-2000-0768: Microsoft Ie

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A function in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows a remote attacker to read client files, aka a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.

Affected products

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

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