CVE-2000-0596

High CVSS 7.5

Published 2000-06-27 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2000-0596, 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

Internet Explorer 5.x does not warn a user before opening a Microsoft Access database file that is referenced within ActiveX OBJECT tags in an HTML document, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands, aka the "IE Script" vulnerability.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-2000-0596

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