CVE-2001-0665: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause certain HTTP requests to be automatically executed and appear to come from the user, which could allow attackers to gain privileges or execute operations within web-based services, aka the "HTTP Request Encoding vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: up to and including 6

Published 2001-10-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.