CVE-2003-0817: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 SP1 allows remote attackers to bypass zone restrictions and read arbitrary files via an XML object.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2004-02-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.