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CVE-1999-1472Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files on the user's machine via a small IFRAME that uses…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 17.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 22 years later
· 22 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.1% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 7819 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- Q176794 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKBx_transferred
- Q176697 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKBx_transferred
- 19971017 Security Hole in Explorer 4.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-1999-1453 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-1999-1472)Record last updated .