CVE-1999-1472

Published: Dec 31, 1999Modified: Apr 16, 2026

5.0

Vector

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

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files on the user's machine via a small IFRAME that uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to send the data to the attacker, aka the Freiburg text-viewing issue.

Affected (1)

Products: Microsoft: Internet Explorer

Microsoft

1 product

Internet Explorer

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Microsoft Internet Explorer	Version 4.0

References (14)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp

Source: cve@mitre.org

PatchVendor Advisory

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp

Source: cve@mitre.org

PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitPatchVendor Advisory

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/7819

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2