CVE-1999-1472

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

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

1999-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0

4.0

References

19971017 Security Hole in Explorer 4.0

Q176697

Patch, Vendor Advisory

Q176794

Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp

7819

http-ie-spy(587)

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