CVE-2001-0322: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MSHTML.DLL HTML parser in Internet Explorer 4.0, and other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a script that creates and deletes an object that is associated with the browser window object.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Outlook: version 2000 only
• Microsoft Outlook Express: version 5.5 only

Published 2001-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.