CVE-2000-0790: Microsoft Windows 2000

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The web-based folder display capability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows local users to insert Trojan horse programs by modifying the Folder.htt file and using the InvokeVerb method in the ShellDefView ActiveX control to specify a default execute option for the first file that is listed in the folder.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version

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