CVE-1999-1472

N/A Unknown

Published: December 31, 1999 Modified: April 16, 2026

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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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/7819

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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