VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-1016

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability7.70%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-08-27
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

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.

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