Title: Microsoft IE Legacy ActiveX Control Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
A vulnerability in a legacy ActiveX control shipped with Internet Explorer 4 and Internet Explorer 5 allows malicious web sites to steal local files. The ActiveX control was used by previous version of IE and it was shipped with IE4 and IE5 but it is used by neither.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.0 for Windows 95
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.0 for Windows NT 3.51
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 95
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 98
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
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