// For flags

CVE-1999-1016

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 - HTML Form Control Denial of Service

Severity Score

5.0
*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

2
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 1999-08-27 CVE Published
  • 1999-08-27 First Exploit
  • 2001-08-31 CVE Reserved
  • 2023-08-13 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-08-01 CVE Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
CWE
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Microsoft
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 Frontpage
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*express
Affected
Microsoft
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 Internet Explorer
Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Internet Explorer"
 5.0
Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Internet Explorer" and version "5.0"
-
Affected
Microsoft
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 Outlook Express
Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Outlook Express"
 5.0
Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Outlook Express" and version "5.0"
-
Affected
Qualcomm
Search vendor "Qualcomm"
 Eudora
Search vendor "Qualcomm" for product "Eudora"
*-
Affected