Vulnerability in Microsoft Frontpage
CVE-1999-1016
Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.077 (94.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.077 · newest: 0.077 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Frontpage
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express — versions 5.0
- Qualcomm Eudora
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/606 (Exploit, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-1999-1016?
- CVE-1999-1016 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Frontpage. Published 1999-08-27.
- Is CVE-1999-1016 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.