CVE-1999-1472

no score yetEPSS 17%

microsoft internet explorer: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

EPSS: 17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 1999-12-31
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

microsoft:internet_explorer

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp
http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html
http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp

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