Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-1999-1575

The Kodak/Wang (1) Image Edit (imgedit.ocx), (2) Image Annotation (imgedit.ocx), (3) Image Scan (imgscan.ocx), (4) Thumbnail Image (imgthumb.ocx), (5) Image Admin (imgadmin.ocx), (6) HHOpen (hhopen.ocx), (7) Registration Wizard (regwizc.dll), and (8) IE Active Setup (setupctl.dll) ActiveX controls for Internet Explorer (IE) 4.01 and 5.0 are marked as "Safe for Scripting," which allows remote attackers to create and modify files and execute arbitrary commands.

EPSS: 0.356 (98.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)