CVE-2001-0091: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ActiveX control for invoking a scriptlet in Internet Explorer 5.0 through 5.5 renders arbitrary file types instead of HTML, which allows an attacker to read arbitrary files, aka a variant of 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 2001-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.