CVE-1999-1110

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Windows Media Player ActiveX object as used in Internet Explorer 5.0 returns a specific error code when a file does not exist, which allows remote malicious web sites to determine the existence of files on the client.

Windows Media Player ActiveX object as used in Internet Explorer 5.0 returns a specific error code when a file does not exist, which allows remote malicious web sites to determine the existence of files on the client.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-11-14 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:18:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

5.0

References

19991114 IE 5.0 and Windows Media Player ActiveX object allow checking the existence of local files and directories

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

793

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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