CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1472
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1999-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 4.0
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2 marc.info
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp 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 www.microsoft.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/7819 www.osvdb.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2 marc.info
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp 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 www.microsoft.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/7819 www.osvdb.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com