CVE-1999-1472

2002-03-0905:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.024 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.1%

JSON

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.

References

marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2

support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp

support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp

www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html

www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp

www.osvdb.org/7819

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587