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Internet Explorer 5 will allow a malicious web page to read the contents of local files through a weakness in the IE5 security model. Normally the document.execCommand method is restricted from reading and returning data on the local machine, however if the method is called from within an IFRAME this restriction can be circumvented.

Internet Explorer 5 will allow a malicious web page to read the contents of local files through a weakness in the IE5 security model. Normally the document.execCommand method is restricted from reading and returning data on the local machine, however if the method is called from within an IFRAME this restriction can be circumvented.