CVE-1999-1472

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp

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

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587

http://www.osvdb.org/7819

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 1999-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N