CVE-2004-2090: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files via the VBScript LoadPicture method, which returns an error code if the file does not exist.

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 2004-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.