CVE-2013-0015: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 15.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 9 does not properly perform auto-selection of the Shift JIS encoding, which allows remote attackers to read content from a different (1) domain or (2) zone via a crafted web site that triggers cross-domain scrolling events, aka "Shift JIS Character Encoding Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only; version 7 only; version 8 only; version 9 only

Published 2013-02-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.