CVE-1999-1472

Published Dec 31, 1999

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 5
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "A5B815D9-BC21-4A17-AF00-B8AD181027D7"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References