CVE-1999-1472

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

31/12/1999

Last modified:

03/04/2025

Description

Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files on the user&#39;s machine via a small IFRAME that uses Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to send the data to the attacker, aka the Freiburg text-viewing issue.

Impact

Vector 2.0

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

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

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

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:4.0:::::::*

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp
http://www.osvdb.org/7819
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp
http://www.osvdb.org/7819
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587