CVE-1999-1472

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

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

Timeline

Published: Dec 31, 1999
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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