CVE-2001-0246: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.5 and earlier does not properly verify the domain of a frame within a browser window, which allows remote web site operators to read certain files on the client by sending information from a local frame to a frame in a different domain, aka a variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: up to and including 5.5; version 5.01 only

Published 2001-06-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.