Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1472 - Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
References
- http://www.insecure.org/sploits/Internet_explorer_4.0.hack.html
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/7/94.asp
- http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q176/6/97.asp
- http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ie/security/freiburg.asp
- http://www.osvdb.org/7819
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87710897923098&w=2
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/587