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 trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-1999-1016: held from 0.077 to 0.077.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.077 · newest: 0.077 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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.