CVE-1999-1472

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

None

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

1999-12-31 CVE Published
2001-08-31 CVE Reserved
2024-08-01 CVE Updated
2024-08-01 First Exploit
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CAPEC

References (7)

URL	Tag	Source
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2	Mailing List
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp	X_refsource_confirm
http://www.osvdb.org/7819	Vdb Entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html	2024-08-01

URL	Date	SRC
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp	2021-07-22
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp	2021-07-22

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Microsoft Search vendor "Microsoft"		Internet Explorer Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Internet Explorer"				4.0 Search vendor "Microsoft" for product "Internet Explorer" and version "4.0"		-		Affected