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CVE-1999-1472
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
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..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- None
- Integrity Impact
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp
- http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp
- http://www.osvdb.org/7819
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587