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Status published
Medium
CVE-1999-1472
Internet Explorer 4.0 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary text...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp
- http://www.osvdb.org/7819
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587
- http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html
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Vulnerable Versions:
4.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 9th, 2002
Last Modified:
August 1st, 2024
Added to House:
July 17th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.