Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-1999-1472
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.171 (97.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.172 · newest: 0.171 · change: -0.001
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 4.0
References
- www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp
- www.osvdb.org/7819 (vdb-entry)
- support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587 (vdb-entry)
- www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html (Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory)