CVE-1999-1472 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text and HTML files from a user's machine. This is achieved through a small IFRAME utilizing Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to exfiltrate data. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (Medium), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but its impact is limited to confidentiality. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules or significant community discussion surrounding this decades-old flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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