CVE-2001-0727: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by modifying the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in a way that causes Internet Explorer to believe that the file is safe to open without prompting the user, aka the "File Execution Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2001-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.