CVE-2001-0002: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 20.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to obtain the physical location of cached content and open the content in the Local Computer Zone, then use compiled HTML help (.chm) files to execute arbitrary programs.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 5.5; version 5.01 only
• Microsoft Windows Script Host: version 5.1 only; version 5.5 only

Published 2001-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.