CVE-2000-0162

Medium CVSS 5.1

Published 2000-02-18 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0162, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

The Microsoft virtual machine (VM) in Internet Explorer 4.x and 5.x allows a remote attacker to read files via a malicious Java applet that escapes the Java sandbox, aka the "VM File Reading" vulnerability.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0162

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P