CVE-2001-0807: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.0, and possibly other versions, may allow remote attackers (malicious web pages) to read known text files from a client's hard drive via a SCRIPT tag with a SRC value that points to the text file.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only

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