CVE-1999-1016

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

27/08/1999

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:::express:::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:eudora::::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:::express:::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:eudora::::::::

CVE-1999-1016

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools