VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-1999-1472

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability17.05%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published1999-12-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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