CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1577

5.1 MEDIUM Published 1999-10-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-10-31
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in HHOpen ActiveX control (hhopen.ocx) 1.0.0.1 for Internet Explorer 4.01 and 5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via long arguments to the OpenHelp method.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 4.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0

References